hand truck

noun

: a small hand-propelled truck
especially : truck entry 1 sense 1c

Examples of hand truck in a Sentence

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Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer. Andrew Ford, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024 With the load going up to 50.5 kilograms--or more than 111 pounds--the buckets were dispensed with and a hand truck with a pneumatic platform loaded with steel plates was rolled onto the floor. Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023 John Irving, a lawyer representing one of the two employees who moved the boxes, said the worker did not know what was in them and was only trying to help Trump valet Walt Nauta, who was using a dolly or hand truck to move a number of boxes. BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for hand truck 

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hand truck was in 1920

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“Hand truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20truck. Accessed 29 Dec. 2024.

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