nightcart
nightcart is the alternative form of night cart.
Meaning of night cart
Noun
night cart (plural night carts)
- A cart used to remove the contents of privies by night.
- But above all I would beg my reading merry Friends of the thoughtless kind not to be so much surpriz'd at the Apparitions of their own Brain; not to start and be frighted when they first make Devils by Day-light, and then see them in the dark; and as they may be assur'd they will hardly ever see...1729, Daniel Defoe, The Secrets of the Invisible World Exposed, London: J. Clarke, A. Millar and J. Green, page 395
- Synonyms:
- danna-drag
Forms of nightcart
| plural | nightcarts |
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Questions about nightcart
- What is nightcart the alternative form of?
- Nightcart is the alternative form of night cart.
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