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Sporty carriage
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dogcart
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Word definitions for dogcart in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogcart \Dog"cart`\, n. A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A dogcart is a cart pulled by one or more dogs . This is now rare, except for entertainment. Dog carts pulled by two or more dogs were historically used in Belgium and The Netherlands for delivering milk , bread, and other trades. In early Victorian Britain, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cart drawn by a dog. 2 A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.
Usage examples of dogcart.
Up on Drumfire and Trueheart, Jim and Louisa rode beside the dogcart for almost a league, taking this last chance to repeat their farewells.
Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
Between his ribcage and his knees he was mostly plastic bags and tubes and things that are to a colostomy bag what a Rolls-Royce is to a dogcart.
The two dogcarts that had brought water, food, and lumber had been unloaded and the two-bearhound team of one had been unharnessed and ranged about watchfully.
The omnibuses and cabriolets were all taken, every intersection jammed with rattle-traps and dogcarts, with cursing drivers and panting, black-nostriled horses.
Finally, her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and a splash-board in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
He was a London gentleman, it appears--a young man about town, it afterwards transpired--but he frequently stayed at Canterbury, where he had some friends, and on those occasions he would come over to Ninescore in his smart dogcart and take Mary out for drives.