hand-operated

English

Adjective

hand-operated (not comparable)

Operated or controlled manually, rather than by automatic, electronic or other means.
- 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 the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“hand-operated”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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