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单词 dung pot
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dung potn.

Brit. /ˈdʌŋ pɒt/, U.S. /ˈdəŋ ˌpɑt/
Forms: see dung n.1 and pot n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dung n.1, pot n.1
Etymology: < dung n.1 + pot n.1 (compare sense 5a at that entry). With sense 2 compare earlier dung putt n.Earlier currency is implied by the following example (apparently showing a Latin borrowing of the English word):1302 in M. Page Pipe Roll Bishopric Winchester (1996) 358 [In 3 dung-baskets] dungpott' [bought for stock 5d].
1. A basket or tub for carrying dung, earth, etc.; (in later use) esp. either of a pair of these, hung from the sides of the packsaddle of a horse or other animal, and often made with a hinged bottom by which the contents may be emptied out. Now historical.After the 18th cent., chiefly with reference to use in the south-west of England, Wales, and Ireland, especially from areas in which the terrain or condition of the roads made transporting dung and other heavy loads by cart impractical.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > tub > [noun] > carried by pack-horse
dung pot1388
1388–9 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 58 ij wylpottis..j dungpot.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Scirpea, a dunge potte or colne made with roddes.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique x. 50 In Nouember..make hiues for bees, panniers, dung-pots, and baskets of osier.
1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women 61 Thou shalt haue a brended slut like a Hell-hagge, with a paire of pappes like a paire of dung-pots.
1756 W. Ellis Compl. Planter & Cyderist i. 38 Earth..may be carried in wooden Dung-pots, which are shaped like Churns, and hang on each Side a Horse... These Dung-pots are emptied by unpinning the bottom Board.
1819 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 25 Sept. (advt.) 1 pair of dung pots, pack saddle, &c.
1875 Baily's Monthly Mag. Mar. 326 The Devonshire packhorse—an active compact, and sturdy animal as ever carried a pair of dung-pots, crooks, or brandy-kegs up the face of a precipice.
1962 J. G. Jenkins Agric. Transport in Wales iv. 48 For dung carrying..each animal was equipped with a pair of coopered vessels, known as dung pots.
1998 Past & Present No. 159. 63 Everywhere basketwork panniers were slung onto pack horses: in Devon ‘dung pots’ with trapdoors at the bottom were used in pairs to carry muck out to the fields.
2. A cart used for carrying dung, earth, etc.; (in later use) esp. a heavy cart, typically drawn by three horses, and with a tilting body from which the contents can be tipped out. Cf. dung putt n. Now English regional (south-western).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung
dung putt1313
dung cartc1405
tumbril1440
dung pot1575
tumbler1673
mud-cart1749
tumbler-cart1880
1575–6 Act 18 Elizabeth I c. 10 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 620 Everye..person..shalbe charged to finde..one Carte..Tumbrell Dounge Pott or Courte..for..repayringe of the Highe wayes.
1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 2 in Statutes of Realm (1819) V. 355 The Rakers [and] Scavengers..shall bring..Carts Dung pots or other fitting carriages into all streets..that all persons..may bring forth theire respective Ashes Dust Dirt Filth and Soil.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 171 A horse wch draws a sort of carriage, the wheeles like a Dung-pott.
1752 Covent-Garden Jrnl. 15 Feb. Since this sportive Humour is descended among the Farmers, some Races between Dung-Pots are shortly expected.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 617 The horses which south-country farmers still string on their..three-horse dung-carts, or dung-pots, as they are called.
1859 Isle of Wight Observer 12 Mar. There is a certain class of minds which travel like the old dung-pots upon the highways, up to their axletrees in ruts.
1956 Geogr. Mag. Sept. 260/1 The Bedfordshire ‘dung pot’ was a primitive sort of tipping cart, the shafts being fixed to the axle. It was in fairly general use about the countryside.
1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. i. 154 Q[uestion] What do you call this [sc. a farmcart; interviewees were shown a drawing of a tip-cart]?..[Dorset] pɒt, dʌŋpɒt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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