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pump trolleys

pump trolleys is the plural 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

Questions about pump trolleys

What is pump trolleys the plural of?
Pump trolleys is the plural of pump trolley.

Words near pump trolleys in the dictionary

  1. pump room
  2. pump rooms
  3. pump someone's fist
  4. pump someone's tires
  5. pump trolley
  6. pump trolleys
  7. pump truck
  8. pump trucks
  9. pump up
  10. pump up someone's tires
  11. pump valve

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