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View synonyms for handcart

handcart

[ hand-kahrt ]

noun

  1. a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.


handcart

/ ˈhændˌkɑːt /

noun

  1. a simple cart, usually with one or two wheels, pushed or drawn by hand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of handcart1

First recorded in 1630–40; hand + cart
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Example Sentences

Combined with a microscope, monitor, CPU, keyboard, and joystick, the system fits on a handcart compact enough to wheel between surgeries.

So much for so called "decoupling" theories that they could carry on regardless, even as the West went to hell in a handcart.

A pedlar's cart, a handcart; they had seen it stop in the village street.

They were wheeling a handcart with the flowers in it, and were quite surprised to find the bed occupied.

When I look at one picture I see a man and a woman with a handcart loaded with household furniture.

A little handcart was among the office equipment, and very often Bart did light delivering.

A very old priest, too feeble to walk, was trundled by two young priests in a handcart.

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