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Definition of Handcarts
1. handcart [n] - See also: handcart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handcarts
Literary usage of Handcarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gleanings from the Sea: Showing the Pleasures, Pains and Penalties of Life by Joseph Warren Smith (1887)
"The handcarts were the rivals of the long-tailed trucks of those days, ...
After a while both trucks and handcarts disappeared, superceded by the express ..."
2. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1887)
"... to stand in any parts of the streets, except such as were fixed by the city
commissioners.4 Barrows and handcarts above a certain size were not allowed ..."
3. National Insurance by Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr, William Hubert Stuart Garnett, James Henry Taylor, Great Britain (1913)
"... handcarts. B 206. Workmen engaged wholly or mainly in the work of making small
tools (not being machine tools), screw plates, ratchet braces, pliers, ..."
4. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"handcarts, Stretchers on Wheels. ... Palanquins, handcarts, (b) By Animal Traction;
for Accidents ..."
5. Harper's First [-sixth] Reader edited by Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin (1888)
""The carts for sheep's tails are made of flat boards on two wheels, and look much
like the handcarts which the men use who sell fish and fruit on the ..."
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