hand truck

See also: handtruck

English

A hand truck

Noun

hand truck (plural hand trucks)

1. (Canada, US) An L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand-truck is upright. It makes otherwise bulky and heavy objects easier to move.

   Synonyms: (New Zealand) bag barrow, luggage barrow, (UK) sack barrow, (UK) sack truck, stack truck, trolley, hand trolley

2. Synonym of pallet jack

Translations

box-moving handcart

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手推車／手推车 (zh) (shǒutuīchē), 老虎車／老虎车 (zh) (lǎohǔchē)

• Czech: rudl (cs) m
• Danish: sækkevogn c
• Dutch: steekwagen (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nokkakärry (fi), pakettikärry
• French: diable (fr) m
• Georgian: ურიკა (uriḳa)
• German: Sackkarre (de) f, Sackrodel (de) f (Austria)
• Italian: carrello (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 손수레 (sonsure)
• Persian: باربر (fa) (bârbar)
• Polish: młynarka (pl) f, wózek transportowy m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ручна́я теле́жка f (ručnája teléžka)
• Spanish: diablito m
• Swedish: säckkärra c, magasinkärra c, paketkärra c, bagagekärra (sv) c, pirra (sv) c

pallet jack — see pallet jack

See also

• baggage cart
• dolly
• wheelbarrow

Further reading

• hand truck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia