handcar
IPA: hˈændkɑr
noun
- A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
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Examples of "handcar" in Sentences
- He and Lulu hop on the handcar, and Porky grabs the cow's tail.
- Another Estonian passes by on a handcar, pushing the pump up and down.
- An astonished Fuller chased the stolen train by foot and then by handcar.
- We can stop freaking out about the shit-pit and get the hell off the handcar.
- Thinking they're in a rut, Porky spots a handcar in a siding and a cow grazing.
- That man would stop the handcar, then pick up one end of it, then push it around and down its tracks into its garage.
- These people own matching shoes, take the subway to work (I ride my handcar), heat their baked beans up in a microwave (I eat mine cold).
- UPDATE: It's called a handcar, and thanks to Atara Rich-Shea, who read the entire Thomas the Engine official site to cull this information for me.
- Already the handcar was a hundred yards away, flitting into distance like some big, wonderfully fast bug, the figures of the men at the pumps rising and falling with a walking-beam regularity.
- Nevertheless, according to The New York Times, the Japanese twice tried to kill Willkie—once when they machine-gunned a railway carriage and a second time when he and his party were riding a handcar.
- One of my classmate's father worked for the TeePee and had a rail handcar that he went to work in and then came home in at night, parking his handcar in a little tin garage just off the tracks with its own set of tracks.
- Those terrific old handcars with the seesaw type of double handle so one guy would push down while the other guy facing him pulled up, and then vice versa, and the handcar would go zipping along the track, that old kind of handcar that guys like Buster Keaton used to travel on, they don’t have them anymore.