dung-cart

Eventually a tractor and dung-cart (how appropriate, I hear you say) was deployed to repatriate us, Alas: the real disaster was that the bridge successfully withstood the spate, so causing the flooding of The Fox, then my favourite hostelry.

Forget the weather ! Norfolk Blogger 2009

When a lieutenant-general of the army, a foreigner, who had shed his blood for the state, condemned by the cries of his infuriated enemies, was led to the scaffold in a dung-cart, with a gag in his mouth?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And thus, while the dung-cart and the sloop are always meditating mischief against the coach and the ship, and throwing themselves designedly in their way, the latter consider only their own security, and are not ashamed to break the road and let the other pass by them.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

He would have no place in Vespasian's Rome, where the Emperor himself would call a wagon a dung-cart in an accent that implied he once knew how to shovel manure.

A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

He was dragged through the streets of Paris in a dung-cart, and, lest he should address the people, a gag was stuffed into his mouth, so large as to project beyond his lips.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

On these I will only remark, that few persons would pronounce dung-cart as J.M. B. implies, even for alliteration; and, indeed, when so even marked to the eye, it is not without an effort that we can read accordingly.

Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 Various

The following are variations which I have heard: -- "As proud as the cobbler's dog, that took [or _as_ took -- the most general vernacular form, for the sake of euphony] the wall of a dung-cart, and got crushed for his pains."

Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 Various

It was placed on a dung-cart and brought to cologne on the fourth day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

England it is very little they will do in the fields except to glean and make hay; the first is a party of pilfering, and the second of pleasure; in France they plough and fill the dung-cart.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

And thus, while the dung-cart and the sloop are always meditating mischief against the coach and the ship, and throwing themselves designedly in their way, the latter consider only their own security, and are not ashamed to break the road and let the other pass by them.

The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900