night-cart

plural night-carts

1. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of night cart.

   No person shall act as night-man or drive any night-cart within the limits of the city of Grafton, unless such person be authorised so to do by the said Council.

   1885, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, page 282

   2 more examples

   This dismal box, mounted nakedly on four frail wheels, was drawn along by a pale, lean horse, and the driver sat severe in his shirt-sleeves and tattered hat, like some desperate blackguard driving a night-cart.

   1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

   And having found fault with an Egyptian policeman, who blew his whistle lustily from underneath the garbage in a night-cart into which I thrust him to teach him manners, I set out to put great distance between this hotel and me, not wishing that you sahibs should be disturbed on my account.

   2011, Talbot Mundy, Jimgrim and a Secret Society, →ISBN, page 87