handcar
- n a small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor
- She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails.
- Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar.
- These days, the students simply haul the new rector about the cobbled streets in a handcar, subjecting him to indignities on the way.