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dandy carts

dandy carts is the plural of dandy cart.

Meaning of dandy cart

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

Questions about dandy carts

What is dandy carts the plural of?
Dandy carts is the plural of dandy cart.

Words near dandy carts in the dictionary

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

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