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Definition of night cart in English: night cartnoun Australian historical A vehicle which was used to collect excrement from areas with no sewers; a sanitary cart. they refused to carry out work such as emptying the night cart Example sentencesExamples - There were still night carts picking up sewage from half the inner suburbs of Sydney.
- Despite his lowly occupation, the night cart man owned one of the best houses in Greymouth, poised on a hill overlooking us all.
- With summer ripening the odour in the area, the neighbours drew up a roster system to empty the night cart pan, dubbing it Dunny Duty.
- At least they enjoyed the two bottles of beer the old girl left out each week for the night cart man.
- Much like the sewage system put the night cart men into other professions, or electricity put an end to the gaslight men, the book industry is also undergoing change.
- Trouble was there was no night cart man any longer, and trying to organise other toilet facilities only agitated and upset the woman.
- The majority of rights of way in Banyule were developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s and were used as night cart lanes.
- With its heavy use by dogs and its dog-leg bend, the lane must have proven quite adventurous for the night cart man of yore.
- They refused to carry out the menial work, such as carrying luggage across coral from the main boat to the settlement and, you know, emptying the night cart.
- She started using the old outhouse again—complete with flap door at the back for the night cart man to remove the pan.
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