ash-cart

Then, in the first morning hours, he would rise and look out of his window at the awakening activities of the street -- at the street-cleaners, the ash-cart drivers, and the other dingy workers flitting hurriedly by through the sallow winter light.

The Bolted Door 1908

That same evening an ill-tempered and very dirty ash-cart driver turned up at the stables with a different horse from the one he had driven out that morning, much to the mystification of himself and certain officials of the Department of Street Cleaning.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

So they've put you in a blanked ash-cart, have they?

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Then, in the first morning hours, he would rise and look out of his window at the awakening activities of the street -- at the street-cleaners, the ash-cart drivers, and the other dingy workers flitting hurriedly by through the sallow winter light.

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899

Then, in the first morning hours, he would rise and look out of his window at the awakening activities of the street -- at the street-cleaners, the ash-cart drivers, and the other dingy workers flitting hurriedly by through the sallow winter light.

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Edith Wharton 1899

Here comes a pleasure party, as gay as any on the avenue, though the carry-all is an ash-cart.

IV. The Down Town Back-Alleys 1890

_Gotham Gazette_ into the first ash-cart he passed after he was out of range of the porter's vision.

Tales of Fantasy and Fact Brander Matthews 1890