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What does handcar mean?

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Noun
  1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
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The crippled one was helped aboard of the handcar, Zeph joined them, and the handcar sped away.
Bannon walked back to the tracks, in time to see a handcar and trailer, packed with men, come up the track and stop near at hand.
Over the hill from the next valley, the locomotive steamed down on the little handcar.
There was nobody left in the cut, and both the train and the handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of sight.
They found the manual gate valve, which can be opened by laboriously cranking a metal handle through hundreds of revolutions, like a man pumping an old-fashioned handcar down a railroad track.
Anyone with the time and energy can then climb aboard a handcar and travel down an old colliery railway line all the way to Oranienbaum castle.

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