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pump-car

pump-car is the alternative form of pump car.

Meaning of pump car

Noun

pump car (plural pump cars)

  1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism; a handcar.
    • Down from Black Adder came Tim O'Cannon and his gang, pumping a pump-car for all they were worth, trailing behind them a flat-top trolley packed with Tim's Blossom and his six quadroons.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 191
  2. A child's tricycle operated by similar action.
    • There's no reason why junior can't have a pump car due to metal priorities because you can make an all-wood model.1944 April, Popular Mechanics, page 89

Forms of pump-car

pluralpump-cars

Questions about pump-car

What is pump-car the alternative form of?
Pump-car is the alternative form of pump car.

Words near pump-car in the dictionary

  1. pump valves
  2. pump-action shotgun
  3. pump-action shotguns
  4. pump-and-dump
  5. pump-and-dumps
  6. pump-car
  7. pump-cars
  8. pump-fake
  9. pump-faked
  10. pump-fakes
  11. pump-faking

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