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1 One of the two wooden bars fastened as handles on the sides of a tub or half-barrel (P 148-62).
T 43-64 Now the handbarrow was made with two stags, one on each side and you'd load up the barrow [with] what you thought the two people were able to carry, an' you'd take it up by the stags and carry it out on the flake an' dump it off.
2 Protruding end of the runner of a sled or 'komatik.'
T 43/7-64 [There'd be] two stags on the rear end of it, you know, for guidin' 'em. If the thing is empty you sit on an' guide her with your feet, but if you're loaded you stand behind and just guide your komatik with your two stags behind.
3 Comb stag barrow: device with two projecting wooden shafts for moving hay (P 269-64).
stag tub: wooden tub or half-barrel with handle on each side, carried by two men (P 269-64); BARROW1: ~ TUB.
