Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to take a drunkard, who is reclining or passed out, home in a wheel-barrow.

1871		(ref. to 1820) Dundee Courier 27 Nov. 4/2: ‘Drunkenness without shame’ [...] Fifty years ago, Bailies could be ‘barrowed’ home at night, to take their seat next day the Council board without any scruples.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 20/2: Barrered (Low Life). A corruption of barrowed, from to barrow or put in a barrow, not that of the gardener but of the coster. Distinct from ‘shettered’ (q.v.), intimating that the drunken gentleman was removed by his friends and not by the police; e.g., ‘Which mum, we ’ad to barrer ’im ’ome. He were too that ’eavy to carry.’.