hand throttle

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   a hand-operated lever that controls the throttle valve

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Questions about hand throttle

What does hand throttle mean?

hand throttle means "a hand-operated lever that controls the throttle valve".

Is hand throttle a common word?

hand throttle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.