Meanings
noundandy cart (plural dandy carts)
plural dandy carts
- historicalrail transportA wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.
Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.
1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image captionSynonyms: dandy wagon, dandy waggon
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.
Similar
dandy wagondandy waggon
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