Talk:barrow man

RFV discussion: February 2018
200 year old slang term - good luck citing it --Gente como tú (talk) 13:53, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * From what I could find, "barrow man" is short for "wheel-barrow man", a convict who is sentenced to hard labour, and that convicts awaiting transportation were one (but only one) group of such convicts. I have added a bunch of cites to the citations page, but some of them are kind of mention-y. (wheel-barrow man was much easier to cite). My impulse would be to alter the definition to an alt form of wheel-barrow man (a convict sentenced to hard labour), rather than one awaiting transportation. -- of course, the overwhelming majority of uses of "barrow man" that I found were SOP: a man with a barrow. Kiwima (talk) 20:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * A man with a castrated pig? Khemehekis (talk) 23:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Lol, Possibly, but more likely with a vehicle pushed by hand for carrying a load. Kiwima (talk) 00:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh. I just looked the word up on Wiktionary and saw that barrow has three unrelated meanings. Khemehekis (talk) 03:23, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

I have changed this to be an alternate form of wheel-barrow man, and cited it. Kiwima (talk) 21:30, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 06:45, 18 February 2018 (UTC)