Dumpcart

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.

    "When James' Bay mud flats had become too "towny" to be a rubbish heap any more, the little two-wheeled, one-horse dump-carts trundled their loads of garbage to the unmade end of Cook Street and spilled it among the boggy ooze."

  2. 2
    a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling wordnet

Synonyms

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carttumbreltumbril

Example

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"Hitch the dumpcart to my old, worthless horse!"

Etymology

From dump + cart.

Related phrases

two wheeled

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