Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, usually two-wheeled cart pulled or pushed by hand.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
Wiktionary
- n. A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
Etymologies
- hand + cart (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Talking to the Daily Mail about falling standards and everything going to hell in a handcart is obviously preaching to the converted.”
“We found Mr. Singer waiting with a little kind of handcart to which was harnessed a little old donkey ...”
“Manish Swarup/Associated Press A vendor sat on his handcart and fed leaves to his goat in New Delhi Tuesday.”
“Everyone knows who the scumbags are and until the police stop trying to be all things to all people and go back to unashamedly harassing the felons and the feckless we WILL all go hell in a handcart. on October 2, 2009 at 7: 28 pm | Reply Christopher Chantrill”
“As flames rage in the night sky, the youngest daughter laughs uncontrollably at the spectacle of her resolutely bourgeois family, sellers of sour pickle and malt coffee, literally going to hell in a handcart.”
“Danish Siddiqui/Reuters Shamsuddin, 52-year-old porter, sat on his handcart in Mumbai Thursday.”
“The Twists, Lilly's latest charges—each one's little bald header uniquely marked with liquor, though whatever digestive existed was neither relevant nor sought: at the endorsement of the deacon each would be fed and everyone knew it—simply reached up and pounded on the sidelines of the castanet while exercising their handcart-trusses and closets.”
“Your great-grandmother walked here from Omaha, pushing a handcart, when she was ten years old, with the wind and rain in her face, her feet bleeding, over mountains and through rivers, and you want a ride?”
The Huffington Post: Terrell Harris Dougan: Confessions of a Bad Jack Mormon Woman
“Should we care if the high street goes to hell in a handcart?”
The Guardian: Hard times on the high street mean an unhappy Christmas at the Treasury
“It's technically sublime, with a finale that sees the leads at loggerheads after a tetchy tour where the production has gone to hell in a handcart.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘handcart’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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handie
handy compounds
beforehand, hamhanded, freehand, handicraft, handmade, handheld, handfull, handiwork, handsew, handmaid, handpicked, panhandle and 42 more...
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