nightcart

plural nightcarts

1. alternativeAlternative form of night cart.

   The nightcart travelled up and down city and suburban streets collecting pans full of sewage and replacing them with fresh empty ones.

   2013, Phillip Knightley, R M Crawford, Australia, →ISBN, page 46

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   Any person who shall be desirous to exercise or practice the business of a nightman, or drive any nightcart, within the limits of the town of Port Pirie, without a licence from the town council of the said town first obtained, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.

   1891, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia

   He found, on his visit in 1887, that the pans discharged through earthenware pipes into a nightcart tank in the basement, which was taken away and emptied three times a week by a private contractor, whose duty it was to remove the night-soil "to some place outside the suburban boundaries".

   1969, Jacqueline Templeton, Prince Henry's: The Evolution of a Melbourne Hospital, 1869-1969, page 91