Word Meanings - ACQUIRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acquirement. Barrow.

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• BARROW
  A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain. (more info) 1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• ACQUIREMENT
  The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. Syn. -- Acquisition,
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• SEA BARROW
  A sea purse.