barrow
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For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred in an enormous barrow on the island of Leka, which is just off the country’s northern coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
During his many trips to abandoned mines around mid Wales he has found a child's footprint, hobnail boots, tools, miners' gloves and a 170-year-old barrow "still where the miner originally left it".
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2024
To help his mother, he pushed a barrow of vegetables around town every evening - just as his grandfather had.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023
Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022
One afternoon I was wheeling my barrow toward the pond when something sharp sank into my thigh.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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