handcar

Etymology

hand + car

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. 2013-03-01, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Agent Lyla (Samantha Bee)
    A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it. 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 306

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