watercart

Shelterless fragments of straw and paper got up revolving storms there, when the main street was at peace; and the watercart, as if it were drunk or short-sighted, came blundering and jolting round it, making it muddy when all else was clean.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The soil was, however, only soft red sand, and made it very heavy work for our horses drawing the watercart.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

We drivers took the horses out of reach, and the gunners and infantry attacked it with sacks, etc. But nothing could stop it, though by great efforts they confined its width, so that it only reached one of our waggons and the watercart, which I don't think are damaged.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

It is heartrending for the medical man who has emerged from a hospital full of water-born pestilence to see a regimental watercart being filled, without protest, at some polluted wayside pool.

The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The soil was, however, only soft red sand, and made it very heavy work for our horses drawing the watercart.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823