wheel-barrow man

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A convict sentenced to hard labor in the 1800s, especially one sentenced to work maintaining the roads. US,historical
    — At the outset of the reformatory process in Pennsylvania, it was thought that a salutary effect would result from long continued, visible, or public punishment, by degrading labour in the streets or upon the highways ; ... and many persons, now living, can distinctly remember when convicts (sometimes called “Wheel-barrow Men”) were to be seen at work in the streets of Philadelphia with a chain and clog upon the neck or leg, and other badges of degradation and guilt.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel-barrow, man.; a man working with a wheel-barrow.

词形变化

wheel-barrow men plural
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