hand truck

noun

1. truck ¹( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of hand truck¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

In other days lard was rolled aboard box-cars, a barrel to a hand-truck, a rather slow and a rather costly process.

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The cases are packed four tiers high—never higher—and your guide explains to you that four cases is the limit of a hand-truck.

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A hundred times he had to step quickly to avoid hand truck, or dray, or laden wagon.

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He got their unlimited baggage on to a hand-truck, paid the cabman, and hustled the whole caravan inside.

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The men had a wheeled hand-truck and were rolling one of the atomic warheads onto it.

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