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Definition of Handcart
1. Noun. Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels. "Their pushcart was piled high with groceries"
Specialized synonyms: Applecart, Barrow, Garden Cart, Lawn Cart, Wheelbarrow, Hand Truck, Truck, Laundry Cart, Serving Cart, Shopping Cart
Terms within: Grip, Handgrip, Handle, Hold
Generic synonyms: Wheeled Vehicle
Derivative terms: Cart
Definition of Handcart
1. n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
Definition of Handcart
1. Noun. A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handcart
1. a cart pushed by hand [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handcart
Literary usage of Handcart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1880)
"You can hear them a long way off, and if you get in their way it is your own
fault, as it was ours. handcart FOB A ..."
2. The lion's share by Arnold Bennett (1916)
"It was a handcart, pushed by a labourer and by Police Inspector Keeble, whom she
liked. Following the handcart over the brow came a loose procession of ..."
3. History of Salt Lake City by Edward William Tullidge (1886)
"The community had also to feed the thousands of emigrants who arrived that year
in a starved condition in the handcart companies. The famine was the great ..."
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