"handcar" meaning in English

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          "text": "Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life.",
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          "ref": "2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 306:",
          "text": "A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.",
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          "word": "Kalamazoo"
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