Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cart for conveying dust, refuse, and rubbish from the streets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a truck for collecting domestic refuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
vehicle for collectingrefuse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a truck for collecting domestic refuse
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Examples
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Plus the carriage, which makes Cinderella's looks like a dustcart.
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After the Lord Mayor's show of Andrew's trial, came the dustcart of the second trial: that of Alice Edith Ross, n-e Pritchard, one-time secretary at the shop, secret lover of sly old James, whose adoration for his wife went without question.
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Lawyer: "Now, isn't it true that on the 5th of November last year, you rode naked through the streets on top of a dustcart, letting off fireworks, and singing 'I did it my way' loudly?"
August 2008 2008
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Lawyer: "Now, isn't it true that on the 5th of November last year, you rode naked through the streets on top of a dustcart, letting off fireworks, and singing 'I did it my way' loudly?"
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To me, it is reminiscent of an old corporation dustcart, not dissimilar to the one seen in the 1971 feature film when the Dads Army platoon hitch a ride back to Walmington-On-Sea from their manoeuvres (thank you Anoneumouse).
And now... the European Army Richard 2006
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Lawyer: "Now, isn't it true that on the 5th of November last year, you rode naked through the streets on top of a dustcart, letting off fireworks, and singing 'I did it my way' loudly?"
Funny Transcripts 2008
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Protestant Christianity believes that there is a Divine record in a book; that everyone ought to have free access to that book; that everyone who gets hold of it can save his soul by it, whether he finds it in a library or picks it off a dustcart.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Can't you see that all you have to do is to push him in the gutter, where he'll remain till the scavengers throw him into the dustcart?
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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He touched the elbow, showed a flitting face of crazed amazement in amusement, and shrugged and half-laughed, dismissing the incident, as being perhaps, if his hearer chose to have it so, a gem of the rubbish tumbled into the dustcart out of a rather exceptional householder's experience.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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He touched the elbow, showed a flitting face of crazed amazement in amusement, and shrugged and half-laughed, dismissing the incident, as being perhaps, if his hearer chose to have it so, a gem of the rubbish tumbled into the dustcart out of a rather exceptional householder's experience.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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