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hand·cart

 (hănd′kärt′)
n.
A small, usually two-wheeled cart pulled or pushed by hand.
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handcart

(ˈhændˌkɑːt)
n
(Automotive Engineering) a simple cart, usually with one or two wheels, pushed or drawn by hand
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hand•cart

(ˈhændˌkɑrt)

n.
a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
[1630–40]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.handcart - wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a personhandcart - wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries"
applecart - a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow, barrow - a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
hand truck, truck - a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
laundry cart - handcart for moving a load of laundry
serving cart - a handcart for serving food
shopping cart - a handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping
wheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC"
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Translations

handcart

[ˈhændkɑːt] Ncarretilla f, carretón m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

handcart

hand-cart [ˈhændkɑːrt] ncharrette f à brashand cream handcream [ˈhændkriːm] ncrème f pour les mains
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References in classic literature ?
They were wheeling a handcart with flowers in it, and were quite surprised to find the bed occupied.
They had sold enough to their immediate neighbors during the earlier autumn to secure a child's handcart, which, though very weak on its pins, could be trundled over the country roads.
They were wheeling a handcart with the flowers in it, and were quite surprised to find the bed occupied.
Karachi -- One person was killed while two others were injured in a fight between Parking Mafia and Handcart Mafia at Sea View, Karachi.
They've done diddly-squat as the country goes to hell in a Tory-steered handcart.
"The world is going to hell in a handcart and Angela, a natural pessimist, is fed up of commentating on it all as it happens."
We have to ground all aircraft, tie up all ships, scrap all petrol and diesel vehicles, transport goods by handcart and ride around on bicycles.
Now in the pages of "The Mormon Handcart Migration: "Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow", historian and author Candy Moulton tells of their successes, travails, and tragedies in an epic retelling of a truly legendary story of the American West.
Quite why she should be worrying about kitchen frugality in a Cabinet meeting while the country is going to hell in a handcart beats me.
Allegedly, 12-year-old Shahzad had gone to fetch water using a handcart.
A handcart pusher, who was charged with unlawful entry into Kenya Air Force's base in Eastleigh, was on Thursday released by a Milimani court.
Grayson uses a biological framework to explore the fates of three emigrant groups traversing the American West in 19th century: the well-known Donner Party, plus two Mormon groups who lost a total of 200 people in Wyoming: the Willie Handcart Company and the Martin Handcart Company, who tried to bring their goods and children in wheeled carts drawn by humans, not animals, from Iowa to Utah.