Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
watering-cart .
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Examples
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By God! or I'll make you leak till folks'll think your father was a water hydrant and your mother a sprinkling-cart.
Chapter IV 2010
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Too much moisture from a sprinkling-cart, I guess.
The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose
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Out in the drowsy thoroughfare a sprinkling-cart jarred heavily past, spurting ineffectually at the yellow dust which rose perversely under its baptism and surged beneath the awnings of the shops.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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By God! or I'll make you leak till folks'll think your father was a water hydrant and your mother a sprinkling-cart.
Chapter IV 1910
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General's arm and be piloted safely between the hay-wagons and the sprinkling-cart to the other side of the street.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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