handcar
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Noun[edit]
handcar (plural handcars)
- 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- jigger
- Kalamazoo (Australia)
- pump car
- pump trolley
Translations[edit]
a light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism — see draisine