man-poweredadj.
/ˈmanˌpaʊəd/, U.S. /ˈmænˈˌpaʊərd/ Driven, operated, or brought about by human rather than mechanical power.
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1950 Pacific Affairs 23 68 The productivity of man-powered industries can be increased many times by the use of mechanical prime movers.
1959 Times 27 July 7/6 A purely private effort..to achieve a man-powered ‘ornithopter’.
1980 Shakespeare Q. 31 226 The Clarence Brown Company..gave Twelfth Night on a splendid set... A small, inner proscenium in gothic style framed a three-sided, man-powered revolve.
1984 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 70 892 The expenses of slow hand composition of type and manpowered printing made most of these newspapers brief in span.
1992 Tour de France 92 19 A fast ride on a racing bicycle is the nearest thing in this world to man-powered flight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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