Crossword clues for handcar
handcar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handcar \handcar\ n. a small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor.
Wiktionary
n. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
WordNet
n. a small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor
Wikipedia
A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases. A typical design consists of an arm, called the walking beam, that pivots, seesaw-like, on a base, which the passengers alternately push down and pull up to move the car.
Usage examples of "handcar".
Once the awkwardness of a buried age had been run off the handcar, it went smoothly.
Then the dead mud-hands loosened, and the Slow Mutie fell on its face between the tracks behind the slowing handcar, still grinning.
The gunslinger let go of the handle and the handcar coasted noiselessly to the rocks, where it thumped to rest.
And began running on the diagonal, toward where the handcar would emerge toward the darkness ahead.
As soon as Longarm got the signal that they were in position he would order a handcar for them, and the roundup could begin.
From the Gare du Nord it travels by special postal handcar around the circular railway line and is delivered to the first train traveling in an easterly direction.
But then the girl let in the clutch and the handcar started down the line.
She gave a sharp twist to the accelerator and the handcar sped on again.
But we began to get worried when we discovered they had taken the rusty old handcar out of the zinc mine and dumped it into the river where the big bend curves eastward about eight miles down the track.
They could make thirty miles an hour easy with that rusty handcar and never come near one of our roadblocks.
Teddy the Keystone Dog unties Tom Oakheart, who gets on a handcar to make for the sawmill.
When the handcar scouts radioed that another train was coming, the final sleighs were loaded almost at random.
I saw a tension travel up and down his bound limbs like a handcar on a twisted track and kept my distance.
He stayed there for three watches before someone figured out what to do with him, until finally a squad of MPs came with crowbars and tilted him into a handcar and rolled him away.
Halfway there the gunner froze up as his relays shorted, so they put the wheels under his heels, loaded the bags on to his legs and he made a damn fine handcar the rest of the way.