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#24515 04/11/01 10:10 PM

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"barrow-boys" weren't the same as street kids, and the term could be applied as well to a man of 80 as to one of 18. I'm not sure when that term came into use

Weren't they so called because they trundled their wares in
(wheel)barrows?

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