Irish car
Irish car noun: a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.
Noun
Irish car (plural Irish cars)
- A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.
- Then we went, my Lord on horseback and the rest of us partly walking, partly on a most social machine, the Irish car, running upon two low, broad wheels, covered by a spacious platform rendered comfortable by carpeting fixed over it, and on the three sides not next the horse, boards to support the...1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 188
- I got into an absurd Irish car […] & drove straight off.1908, Leonard Woolf, letter, 25 November
Forms of Irish car
| plural | Irish cars |
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Questions about Irish car
- What does Irish car mean?
- Irish car means a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.
- What part of speech is Irish car?
- Irish car is a noun.
- What is the plural of Irish car?
- The plural of Irish car is Irish cars.
Words near Irish car in the dictionary
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