Handcar
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
"Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life."
- 2 a small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor wordnet
Example
More examples"Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life."
Etymology
From hand + car.
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