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pump-trolley

pump-trolley is the alternative form of pump trolley.

Meaning of pump trolley

Noun

pump trolley (plural pump trolleys)

  1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism; a handcar.
    • The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40

Forms of pump-trolley

pluralpump-trolleys

Questions about pump-trolley

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

Words near pump-trolley in the dictionary

  1. pump-primed
  2. pump-primes
  3. pump-priming
  4. pump-room
  5. pump-rooms
  6. pump-trolley
  7. pump-trolleys
  8. pumpabilities
  9. pumpability
  10. pumpable
  11. pumpage

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