Definition of pushcart
: a cart or barrow pushed by hand
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Balducci’s roots go back to 1916 when a humble pushcart was set up on a Brooklyn street, filled with fresh produce by Andrew’s father, Louis Balducci, an immigrant from Bari, Italy.
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Blanco Colima, a bar/lounge/restaurant housed in a historic mansion, is the best place to go to grab a small bite and a cold beverage and watch the people and pushcarts go by.
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After the appetizers, the items customers have ordered to cook in their hotpots will arrive attractively arranged on a pushcart.
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The book, about an actual New York event more than 100 years ago, tells how an immigrant family sold Mama’s knishes from a pushcart on the Lower East Side, and then opened the first knish store on Rivington Street.
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Ragmen with pushcarts then, punks with switchblades now.
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Another relative success story is Elpidio Fernandez, a 78-year-old who sells coconut and passion fruit ice cream from a pushcart on the streets of San Juan and has a supplier with a generator.
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Wander the woods on a mile of trail and glimpse a sublimely secluded group campsite for which pushcarts facilitate gear toting.
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The heavy wooden pushcart was replaced by a horse and wagon, then replaced again in 1927 by a truck — the truck’s motor powered the wheel, bringing an end to the era of foot-pedaling.
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First Known Use of pushcart
1853
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Definition of pushcart for English Language Learners
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: a cart that is pushed by a person
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Definition of pushcart for Students
: a cart pushed by hand
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