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dandy cart

dandy cart noun: a wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.

Noun

dandy cart (plural dandy carts)

  1. (historical) A 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 caption
    Synonyms:
    dandy wagon, dandy waggon

Synonyms of dandy cart

  • dandy wagon
  • dandy waggon

Forms of dandy cart

pluraldandy carts

Questions about dandy cart

What does dandy cart mean?
Dandy cart means a wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.
What part of speech is dandy cart?
Dandy cart is a noun.
What is the plural of dandy cart?
The plural of dandy cart is dandy carts.

Words near dandy cart in the dictionary

  1. Dandurands
  2. dandy
  3. dandy as candy
  4. dandy brush
  5. dandy brushes
  6. dandy cart
  7. dandy carts
  8. dandy fever
  9. dandy horse
  10. dandy horses
  11. dandy line

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