dumpcart

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noun

A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

noundumpcart (plural dumpcarts)

plural dumpcarts

  1. A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.

    When James' Bay mud flats had become too "towny" to be a rubbish heap any more, the little two-wheeled, one-horse dump-carts trundled their loads of garbage to the unmade end of Cook Street and spilled it among the boggy ooze.

    1942, Emily Carr, “Cook Street”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
    1 more example

    1955, Albert Camus, "The Minotaur, or the Stop in Oran" (1939), translated by Justin O'Brien, New York: Vintage, 1991, p. 176, Farther on, dump-carts tip their loads over the slopes; and the rocks, suddenly poured seaward, bound and roll into the water, each large lump followed by a scattering of lighter stones.

    Synonyms: tumbril, tumbrel

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.

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