hand-operated

English

Adjective

hand-operated (not comparable)

1. Operated or controlled manually, rather than by automatic, electronic or other means.
   • 1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:

     All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.

   • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:

     The two outside roads have one ton transporter hand-operated cranes, but there is provision for the installation of cranes on the inner roads also.

References

• “hand-operated”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “hand-operated”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.