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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
handcart
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anne could see, though, that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away.
▪ He gave McMenamy a red two-wheeled handcart and unsnapped the protective strap on his holster.
▪ He was given a boy, and two soldiers, and a handcart.
▪ I dived behind a handcart and came up with my automatic in my hand.
▪ Round the corner he came, pushing his handcart with balloons flying high.
▪ There are bicycles, handcarts, wagons, an occasional car or truck.
▪ There the young workaholic did everything from sharpening his own saw to delivering the product in a two-wheeled handcart.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handcart

Handcart \Hand"cart`\, n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

Wiktionary
handcart

n. A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)

WordNet
handcart

n. 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" [syn: pushcart, cart, go-cart]

Usage examples of "handcart".

People filled the streets, dodging between wagons and horse carts and handcarts, hawkers crying their wares, women in deep bonnets that hid their faces carrying shopping baskets, men in knee-length coats striding along self-importantly, apprentices in aprons or vests running errands.

There was a family with three children, several businessmen carrying laptops and briefcases, an airport employee pushing a handcart, two grayhaired women and a group of black men and women in colorful robes and headdresses.

Those waiting with handcarts and a few improvised horse-drawn vehicles managed to raise a cheer as well, although this load was not grain but several dozen loudly argumentative pigs, the last left on the ship.

Soon, merchants trundled in their wares, narrow handcarts jostling in the tight marketplace aisles.

And yet, there were women wheeling handcarts full of yellow crocus buds about.

They were pummeled by loose branches and debris as the wind gusted so strong that it pushed Brat right over, and she stumbled and fell while Uncle struggled to keep the handcart from tipping over.

Lorn rides toward the foot of the pier, and the abandoned handcart filled with footchests, where he dismounts, absently handing the gelding's reins to the nearest lancer.

By the Dead Man's Gate they found Aurea and two of the young sisters waiting with a mule, a broken-backed nag of a mare, and a handcart in which the young brothers had already laid Sister Rosvita most tenderly, cushioning her on a blanket and covering her with another.

Lamb suggested Stooby Turlock as a proper companion, and Nancy whined, All hes interested in is turtles, and as if she were a prophet, not six days later Stooby appeared at the Lamb home with a delicious diamondback terrapin, a gift, he said, because the Lambs had not taken his father to court for stealing a handcart.

The Rolls stopped suddenly as a mass of pedestrians dodged through the tightly packed lines of cars and double-decker buses and taxis and trucks and carts and lorries and bicycles and handcarts and some rickshaws.

Eddie watched a handcart pulled through a gap in the raw earth berm around the fire pit.

Cadets bearing a star of red roses and a cushion covered with medals were followed by a porter pushing a handcart and coffin, then a dozen shuffling generals in dark-green dress uniforms and white gloves, two musicians with trumpets and two with dented tubas playing a funeral march from a sonata by Chopin.

A stocky peasant, dragging a creaking handcart, smiled a greeting through gapped teeth.

Harsh words aside, he can't bear to see Andy going to hell on a handcart like he is.

A few handcarts loaded high with coal and wooden crates jockeyed for space in the narrow tunnel.