Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hay-wagon or -wain.
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Examples
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Two men had fallen asleep in a hay-cart smoking; it caught fire, burnt the men, cart, hay, and all.
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I also dreamed that I might gather the wild herbs, or carry evergreens to such villagers as loved to be reminded of the woods, even to the city, by hay-cart loads.
Walden 2004
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The people seem to pay as little attention to such a procession, as if a hay-cart were driving past.
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‘Am I to see the letter, papa?’ she asked, wishing to turn his mind from the subject of the hay-cart.
The Belton Estate 2004
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He thought that Farmer Stovey was cruel in that he had left the hay-cart near the house, to wound his eyes by reminding him that he was no longer master of the ground before his own hall door.
The Belton Estate 2004
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Hans takes the needle, sticks it into a hay-cart, and follows the cart home.
Household Tales 2003
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The hay-cart moved on and the Cossacks crowded together behind it.
The Cossacks 2003
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The Cossacks with their hay-cart drew closer and closer, and
The Cossacks 2003
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On the morning of this day she had come all the way from Ragatz with the child, a friend having given them a lift in a hay-cart as far as Mayenfeld.
Heidi 2000
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Doctor Faustus horseshoes clacking swallows hay-cart carthorse
Hey! Luciani 1986
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