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dump-cart

dump-cart is the alternative form of dumpcart.

Meaning of dumpcart

Noun

dumpcart (plural dumpcarts)

  1. A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.
    • When James' Bay mud flats had become too "towny" to be a rubbish heap any more, the little two-wheeled, one-horse dump-carts trundled their loads of garbage to the unmade end of Cook Street and spilled it among the boggy ooze.1942, Emily Carr, “Cook Street”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    tumbril, tumbrel

Forms of dump-cart

pluraldump-carts

Questions about dump-cart

What is dump-cart the alternative form of?
Dump-cart is the alternative form of dumpcart.

Words near dump-cart in the dictionary

  1. dump tackle
  2. dump tackles
  3. dump truck
  4. dump trucks
  5. dump-and-bake
  6. dump-cart
  7. dump-carts
  8. dumpability
  9. dumpable
  10. dumpage
  11. dumpages

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