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spring cart

spring cart noun: a light, open, two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, typically for two passengers, having curved steel springs mounted between the axle and the wooden body to absorb shocks.

Noun

spring cart (plural spring carts)

  1. A light, open, two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, typically for two passengers, having curved steel springs mounted between the axle and the wooden body to absorb shocks.
    • And Dan indignantly waved his long, brown arm over the plant, which consisted of the engine, the boring apparatus, and a dilapidated spring-cart that was pulled by a lean, lonely-looking horse[.]1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 1

Forms of spring cart

pluralspring carts

Questions about spring cart

What does spring cart mean?
Spring cart means a light, open, two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, typically for two passengers, having curved steel springs mounted between the axle and the wooden body to absorb shocks.
What part of speech is spring cart?
Spring cart is a noun.
What is the plural of spring cart?
The plural of spring cart is spring carts.

Words near spring cart in the dictionary

  1. spring boxes
  2. spring break
  3. spring breaker
  4. spring breakers
  5. spring breaks
  6. spring cart
  7. spring carts
  8. spring chicken
  9. spring chickens
  10. spring clean
  11. spring cleaning

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