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单词 tax-cart
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tax-cartn.

Etymology: Origin: Formed within English, by compounding.tax n.1, cart n. < tax n.1 + cart n., perhaps as a reduced form of taxed cart n. at taxed adj. Compounds.For the semantic motivation compare quots. 1858, 1884 and see discussion at taxed cart n. at taxed adj. Compounds.
Obsolete.
= taxed cart n. at taxed adj. Compounds.
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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 > cart (usually two-wheeled) > open, one horse
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1796 J. Woodforde Diary 31 Oct. (1929) IV. 316 They came in Mrs. Bodhams little Tax-Cart.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 237 While each tax-cart and shay To the Fair jolts away.
1840 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. (ed. 2) vi. x. 503 Away they go, in gigs and tax-carts, or on scampering horses.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tax-cart, a spring-cart paying a low rate of duty.
1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. III. iii. iii. 231 Vehicles not over the value of 21 l., formerly termed ‘taxed carts’, and since their exemption from tax, usually called, in the provinces, tax carts.
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