Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cart having a body that can be tilted to dump the contents.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cart the platform of which is hung so that its rear end can be tipped or canted down to empty its contents. Also called
dump-cart .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cart constructed so that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
tip + cart
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Examples
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If he had, yo 'could ha' driv a tipcart full o 'rubbish in after it.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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He was harnessed into a tipcart and we made him work for us.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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The town was poured over the slopes of the hill as though a titanic tipcart had let out its rubbish upon the summit.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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The town was poured over the slopes of the hill as though a titanic tipcart had let out its rubbish upon the summit.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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Boys and girls, and old women, and middle-sized men, and every kind of a vehicle, from a tin tipcart to
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