单词 | tax-cart |
释义 | † tax-cartn. Obsolete. = taxed cart n. at taxed adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ 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 taxed cart1795 tax-cart1796 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1796 |
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