handcar

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English[edit]

Handcar

Etymology[edit]

hand +‎ car

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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handcar (plural handcars)

  1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
    • 2013 March 1, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Agent Lyla (Samantha Bee):
      Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life.
    • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 306:
      A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.

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Translations[edit]

a light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism — see draisine

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