Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tip-cart .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.
- noun (Railroads) same as dump car.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling
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Examples
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And Fred never comes downstairs save on his stomach -- and on the banisters -- and lands on the doormat like a load of brick out of a dumpcart.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose
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Nellie to help them by suggestions, they managed to find a set of tin sand-dishes, a windmill that pumped sand, a little iron dumpcart that would be very useful to carry loads, and a string of tin buckets that went up and down on a chain and filled with sand and emptied again as long as anyone would turn the handle.
Brother and Sister Josephine Lawrence
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You'll rake this whole yacht fleet with your old dumpcart! "
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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