man-cart

plural man-carts

1. alternativeAlternative form of mancart.

   That soon settled matters; my goods were put on two man-carts with great care by the entire family, and plants and all were safely brought to my little Azabu house.

   2015, Marie Carmichael Stopes, A Journal from Japan: "A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist", →ISBN

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   In the Transportation Buildin' is a map one hundred feet long, showing the transportation facilities of the Empire, a perfect network of railways and telegraphand telephone wires, showin' they have other ways of gettin' 'round there besides man-carts and jinrikshas, yes, indeed!

   1904, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, →ISBN

   The abruptness of the double peaks behind the town is softened by a belt of cryptomeria, the sandy strip which connects the headland with the mainland heightens the general resemblance of the contour of the ground to Gibraltar; but while one dreams of the western world a kuruma passes one at a trot, temple drums are beaten in a manner which does not recall “the roll of the British drum,” a Buddhist funeral passes down the street, or a man-cart pulled and pushed by four yellow-skinned, little-clothed mannikins, creaks by, with the monotonous grunt of Ha huida.

   2011, 20 Great Travel Classics, →ISBN