| 单词 | dustcart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdust-cart b. With various nouns indicating its use, as baggage-cart, dung-cart, dust-cart, harvest-cart, hay-cart, luggage-cart, etc., or the animal that draws it, as donkey-cart. ΚΠ 1642 in W. Thornbury Haunted London (1865) 385 Paid to the same for the night-cart and cover..£7 9s. 1710 Brit. Apollo 24–26 May I..was Poyson'd with Night-Carts. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship v. 24 On a hay, pea, or dust cart. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship xv. 63 Some Mackerel carts on the road. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 52 Conveyed here on the baggage cart. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1886) 1st Ser. ii. 23 Wheat, dropped by a harvest cart upon a road. dust-cart dust-cart n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > refuse truck or cart pudding-cart1562 dust-cart1776 refuse cart1845 garbage truck1874 sanitation truck1958 1776 J. Entick Hist. London I. 187 A tumbrel or dust-cart. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 21 Every species of carriage from the chariot to the dust-cart. < as lemmas |
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