[Ads-l] YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."

Sun Apr 21 19:25:59 UTC 2019

"The steering gear of earlier ships's wheels sometimes consisted of a
double wheel where each wheel was connected to the other with a wooden
*spindle* that ran through a *barrel* or *drum*."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_wheel

Hence, wheel-barrel, or steering-wheel-barrel.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 12:44 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A meaning missing from the English OLD (
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wheelbarrow <
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wheelbarrow>) and Wiktionary
> (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wheelbarrow <
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wheelbarrow>) for wheelbarrow is the human
> wheelbarrow where one person grabs another by the legs and the person who
> is grabbed moves by moving their arms. This is surely common enough to be
> beyond metaphorical usage.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCCb0wxyodM <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCCb0wxyodM>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPp3YrZxe8 <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPp3YrZxe8>
>
>
> Wheel-barrels
> 1. Some device on a ship
>
> Ocean Steamships: A Popular Account of their Construction, Development,
> Management and Appliance
> F. E. Chadwick, John H. Gould, J. D. J. Kelley, William H. Rideing, A. E.
> Seaton
> 1892 (Google dated)
> https://tinyurl.com/y6eenv6j <https://tinyurl.com/y6eenv6j>
>
> ——
> …. and yet, with all this beef, many a poor fellow has been maimed for
> life by being tossed over the wheel-barrel or jammed by the spokes when the
> ship swung off with sudden lurch...
> ——
>
> English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1858, 2175 - 2255
> H.M. Stationery Office
> 1859 (Google dated)
> https://tinyurl.com/y4ln4qel <https://tinyurl.com/y4ln4qel>
>
> ——
> The chain, whilst passing over the wheel barrel or drum, is held, link by
> link, in suitable notches….
> ——
>
> 2. A barrel on wheels, perhaps like the water wheel barrow in PR’s
> citation below, but for dirt
>
> The Rural New-Yorker, Volume 50
> Rural Publishing Company
> 1891
> https://tinyurl.com/yxuexxu7 <https://tinyurl.com/yxuexxu7>
>
> ——
> A Dirt Wheel-Barrel ….
> Thee machine is simply a barrel on wheels, so nicely balanced that it will
> tip easily…. For many purposes a wheel barrel like this is better for farm
> work than the usual wheelbarrow.
> ——
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
> > On 21 Apr 2019, at 05:50, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > In England in 1831, a "wheel barrel" was a barrow-mounted barrel with a
> perforated tube extending out from the barrel, used for watering a row of
> plants, in one case,  strawberries.
> > https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30812486/new_england_farmer/
> >
> > New England Farmer
> > (Boston, Massachusetts)
> > 28 Jan 1831, Fri  •  Page 4
> >
> > An update on the 1856 apple barrel bet Garson referenced - the man from
> Boston won, and the apples were wheeled from Newburyport to Boston; ten
> thousand people reportedly gathered to greet them.
> >
> > https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30812681/the_tennessean/
> >
> > The Tennessean
> > (Nashville, Tennessee)
> > 16 Nov 1856, Sun  •  Page 2
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > From: ADSGarson O'Toole
> > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 02:36
> > Subject: Re: YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
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> _wheelbarrel_."
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> >
> > The prescriptivists have the upper hand over the descriptivists in the
> > world of "wheelbarrows" and "wheelbarrels". The word "wheelbarrel" is
> > currently rejected as a mistake instead of being embraced as a
> > variant.
> >
> > A sale conducted in  Cheshire, England in 1856 listed both
> > "wheelbarrels, and wheelbarrows". Perhaps the two terms referred to
> > distinct items at that time and place. Alternatively, the seller
> > wanted to connect with buyers by listing synonyms.
> >
> > Date: March 1, 1856
> > Publication: Cheshire Observer
> > Location: Chester, Cheshire, England
> > Article: Sale by Mr. George Felton
> > Quote Page 2, Column 5
> > Database: Newspapers.com
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > A great number of harrows, iron ploughs of the best make; long carts,
> > tumbrel carts, splendid new wagon, first rate water carts,
> > wheelbarrels, and wheelbarrows; a large quantity of gear of all
> > descriptions; two sets of handsomely brassmounted ride-and-drive
> > carriage harness, saddles, bridles, cloths, &c.; . . .
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Here is a fun citation from 1856 describing a politician who may be
> > required to "wheel a barrel of apples on a wheel-barrow".
> >
> > Date: August 7, 1856
> > Newspaper: Boston Press and Post
> > Newspaper Location: Boston, Massachusetts
> > Article: All Sorts of Paragraphs
> > Quote Page 1, Column 2
> > Database: GenealogyBank
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Who will wheel the apples? It is said that Major Poore's wager has
> > been taken, namely--that if Fillmore does not receive more votes than
> > Fremont, in Massachusetts he, Poore, will wheel a barrel of apples on
> > a wheel-barrow from Newburyport to Boston, or, if Fillmore receives
> > the most, the taker of the bet shall convey the apples in the same way
> > from Boston to Newburyport.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > The following 1898 citation employed "wheelbarrow" and "wheelbarrel"
> > in adjacent sentences. Yet, the two terms apparently referred to the
> > same object.
> >
> > Date: October 16, 1898
> > Newspaper: The Cincinnati Enquirer
> > Newspaper Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
> > Article: Street Talk
> > Quote Page 13, Column 1
> > Database: Newspapers.com
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > "If yer had a wheelbarrel we'd be all right," asserted the young man
> > who had delivered the guitar.
> >
> > "Well, there's a wheelbarrow somewhere on the place. It's back by the
> stable."
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:58 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:22 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd call "wheelbarrel" an *eggcorn*, not a folk etymology.
> >>
> >>
> >> Indeed, it was one of the earliest entries in the Eggcorn Database.
> >>
> >> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/10/barrel/
> >>
> >> ...linking to Arnold's Language Log post:
> >>
> >> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001390.html
> >>
> >> ...which in turn references discussion of "wheelbarrel" on this list
> back
> >> in Aug. 2004.
> >>
> >>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2004-August/thread.html#39929
> >>
> >> --bgz
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