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dumpcart

noun

Etymology

From dump + cart.

  1. derived from *gret-✻ — “tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”
  2. derived from *krattaz✻
  3. derived from kartr — “wagon; cart”
  4. inherited from cart
  5. compounded as dumpcart — “dump + cart”

Definitions

  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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA