Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light two-wheeled cart designed to be pushed by band: used especially by street-venders of fruits and by other peddlers.
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Examples
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The shelter also offers parents a chance to have a push-cart business so they can sell books, postcards, T-shirts and other knickknacks supplied by Green Gecko to tourists.
The Giving Guide 2007
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As host to the VIP reception, Chef Dechellis welcomed us and explained that this year they were going with a push-cart theme.
Current Affairs 2007
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As host to the VIP reception, Chef Dechellis welcomed us and explained that this year they were going with a push-cart theme.
Augieland: 2006
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I'll save the explanation for that... guy with his push-cart... except it was pouring rain outside and about -5 degrees Celsius outside...
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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A man pushes an enormous load of bundles on a push-cart, he is delivering groceries; he strains like a horse and reads addresses from a note-book as he hurries along.
Shallow Soil 2003
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The biggest bitch going is the difficulty of finding an adjustor (who commonly sidelines as a bull breeder, paleta push-cart distributor, or fisherman) who will respond to your calls for assistance.
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In his driving examination he stalled only once, stopping dead across a trolley track in deference to a push-cart.
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With a wrench she extracted the wheel, narrowly avoided an elevated post and crashed head on into a push-cart, laden with green bananas resting on straw.
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Barth, oddly enough, for a while had been connected with the Mormons, at the age of 13, a new arrival from Posen, East Prussia, joining his uncle in a push-cart caravan to Salt Lake.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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One evening when we were going into camp we were overtaken by a man trundling a push-cart.
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