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ˈdung-cart
A cart used to convey manure.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 216 He..fond A dong Carte as it went for to donge lond. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §146 To helpe her husbande to fyll the mucke wayne or donge cart. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 48 What a spight it was to see a horse of seruice drawe in a doung-cart. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xiii, If I thought that no one would see me, I'd fill a dung-cart or two.
fig.1624Heywood Captives i. i, Whele about thou dung cart of diseases. 1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 764/2 Reducing all wit to the original dung-cart.
Hence dung-cartful, as much as fills a dung-cart.
1598Mucedorus in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 235 I have kill'd a dungcartful at the least. a1659Cleveland Chym. Magic 18 Guts at least a Dung-cart full. |