wheel-barrow man (English, noun)
expansion: wheel-barrow man (plural wheel-barrow men)
Senses:
glosses: A convict sentenced to hard labor in the 1800s, especially one sentenced to work maintaining the roads.
tags: US
historical
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel-barrow, man.; a man working with a wheel-barrow.
Forms:
form: wheel-barrow men
tags: plural