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dog-cart
1. A small cart drawn by dogs.
1668Pepys Diary 13 June, Walked..through the city [Bristol]..No carts, it standing generally on vaults, only dog-carts. 1854Illustr. Lond. News 8 July 7/1 The dog-cart nuisance..the use of carts drawn by dogs.
2. A cart with a box under the seat for sportsmen's dogs; subsequently, an open vehicle for ordinary driving, with two transverse seats back to back, the hinder of these originally made to shut up so as to form a box for dogs.
1803C. K. Sharpe Lett. 33 July (1888) I. 178 His lordship..keeps horses and curricles and dogs and dog-carts, and gives dinners..to all the rascality of Oxford. 1812Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 182 Our equipage, a most commodious dog-cart. 1861Romance Dull Life xiii. 98 The closed carriage being better than the dog-cart, for the weather had changed, and it was cold. |