dung puttn.
/ˈdʌŋ pʌt/, U.S. /ˈdəŋ ˌpət/ Now English regional (southern and south-western) or historical.
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 could be tipped out. Cf. dung pot n. 2.
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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
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dung cartc1405
tumbril1440
dung pot1575
tumbler1673
mud-cart1749
tumbler-cart1880
1313 Acct. Roll Estates Glastonbury Abbey (Longleat 11216) m. 9 Et de ij Dyngputtes [in a wagon house].
1639 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 70 In the wayne house a winnow, a dungput, and a catshid 6s 8d.
1687 in E. George et al. Bristol Probate Inventories 1657–89 (2005) 155 At the house att the Downe called the Lamb..One hay cart & one dung putt in the Stable..13 [shillings].
1788 Bath Chron. 8 May (advt.) Three seasoned Halling Geldings, with a good Dung Putt.
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. 352 ‘To spur dung’, is to throw it abroad from the heaps left by the dung putt.
1868 Gardeners' Chron. 25 Apr. 445/3 A man had put a dung-putt of clay on a piece of that land, and just there the corn was always good.
1888 Bristol Mercury 8 June 1/2 (advt.) Broad and narrow-wheel wagons, broad-wheel and dung putts, mud, crank-axle, and other carts.
1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. i. 153 Q[uestion] What do you call this [sc. a farmcart; interviewees were shown a drawing of a tip-cart]?..[Hampshire] dung putt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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