PieFed.World2025-11-04
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“Barrow”—precursor to the game of “wheelbarrow.”
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I giggled, but the older definitions of barrow refer to mounds of dirt, typically burial mounds. Wheelbarrow basically means mound of dirt on wheels.
I don't think that's correct. The "barrow" here effectively means "to carry", which also crops up in "bear" (in the sense of bearing a burden, a child, arms).
I also saw to carry as an option. I wonder how those meanings converged.