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- noun Alternative form of
handcart .
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Examples
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Every time you see a beer truck outside a local store, or a guy rolling a hand-cart stacked with cases of beer into your favorite bar -- that's us.
Michael Johnson: Nobody's Coming to Stop Your Wine Shipment... or Mine Either! Michael Johnson 2011
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Every time you see a beer truck outside a local store, or a guy rolling a hand-cart stacked with cases of beer into your favorite bar -- that's us.
Michael Johnson: Nobody's Coming to Stop Your Wine Shipment... or Mine Either! Michael Johnson 2011
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Two men with lanterns and a hand-cart approached her from the odd vehicle on the tracks of the spur, and the wheels of the cart grated in the gravel of the right-of-way.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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So now you see Flashy at the Howrah docks in the misty morning, with his dunnage on a hand-cart, dickering for a passage to the Cape with a Down-east skinflint in a tile hat who should have been flying the Jolly Roger, the price he demanded for putting into Table Bay.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Policemen fill a hand-cart with stones and rocks as they remove them from a road.
Srinagar Standoff 2010
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When the American economy was going to hell in a rusty hand-cart?
Ratification of the IA-AMPTP Basic Agreement Steve Hulett 2009
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As everything has trundled to hell in a hand-cart, however, more eyes have been opened: ...
Declining L.A. Film Shoots Steve Hulett 2009
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His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what is called in painting, an ensemble, that is to say, a person and a thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene who was sleeping therein.
Les Miserables 2008
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At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint – Martin a little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering his glasses of cocoa impartially, — now to the Government, now to anarchy.
Les Miserables 2008
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Except that he was making the turn not behind the wheel of a powerful Korean-made car but with a hand-cart on which were piled some bananas.
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