What is "tax cart"

Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]

1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically:

   1. A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

      A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious.
      --Macaulay.

   2. Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

      Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc.

   3. A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

4. Charge; censure. [Obs.]
   --Clarendon.

5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.]
   --Johnson.

   Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]

   Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.

n. (context UK historical English) A spring cart subject to a low tax.