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handcart

handcart noun: a cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.).

Noun

handcart (plural handcarts)

  1. A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)
    • Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.

Verb

handcart (third-person singular simple present handcarts, present participle handcarting, simple past and past participle handcarted)

  1. (transitive) To transport in this kind of cart.

handcart meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam

handcart in Tamil

கைவண்டி

handcart in Marathi

a cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand
हातगाडी hātgāḍī

handcart in Urdu

handcart
ریڑھی reṛhī

handcart in Malayalam

കൈവണ്ടി, ഉന്തുവണ്ടി
More languagesFewer languages
handcart in Kannada
ಕಯ್ಗಾಡಿ
handcart in Sanskrit
हस्तशकटम् hastaśakaṭam

Forms of handcart

Noun
pluralhandcarts
alternative formhand-cart
alternative formhand cart
Verb
third-person singular presenthandcarts
present participlehandcarting
past participlehandcarted
pasthandcarted

Origin of handcart

From hand + cart.

Words formed from handcart

Questions about handcart

What does handcart mean?
Handcart means a cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.).
What is handcart in Tamil?
Handcart in Tamil is கைவண்டி. See Handcart meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is handcart?
Handcart can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of handcart?
The plural of handcart is handcarts.

Words near handcart in the dictionary

  1. handcarried
  2. handcarries
  3. handcarry
  4. handcarrying
  5. handcars
  6. handcart
  7. handcarted
  8. handcarting
  9. handcarts
  10. handcarved
  11. handclap

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: handcart (page history and authors); handcart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ریڑھی (Urdu) (page history and authors); handcart (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); handcart (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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