Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light four-wheeled platform-car used on railways by track-repairers in moving tools and materials.
- noun A car used at a ferry-slip to connect an engine with a train on a ferry-boat.
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Examples
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Scrambling to their feet, they found an old push-car, with low sides.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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Near the crusher building is a large, stoutly-constructed windlass, worked by mule power, and every few moments there comes up to the surface from the depths of a shaft, a bucketful of rock and sand, which is dumped into a push-car, and from thence transferred to the line of sluice-boxes in the stream, where more half-clothed Utes are busily engaged in sifting golden particles from the rich sand.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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By hauling the boats over into this body of water -- a task made easy by the presence of a tiny tramway with one dilapidated push-car which had been a part of the cannery equipment -- it would be possible to save much time and labor.
The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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