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Definition of Handcar
1. Noun. A small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor.
Definition of Handcar
1. Noun. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handcar
1. a hand-operated railroad car [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handcar
Literary usage of Handcar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"App. 38, 46, 106 SW 554, 557, applied where injury resulted from overloading of
handcar. Distinguished in Southern Рас. Co. v. De Valle Da Costa, 190 Fed. ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1908)
"RAILROAD CROSSING—handcar Frightening Team.—A eom- plaint alleging that the ...
A railroad company is liable for its negligence in placing a handcar, ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"A nonsuit is properly refused in an action to recover damages for Injuries received
by a traveler upon a highway by reason of a collision witb a handcar ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"Under evidence tending to show that the injury was due to a latent defect in the
lever of a handcar, which defect was unknown to the plaintiff, ..."
5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"Couzins to a handcar which I was standing alongside a railroad track. ... We left
Dover on the handcar. I there told Couzins I knew that to be Gordon's ..."
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