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Definition of Dumpcart
1. Noun. A cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling.
Definition of Dumpcart
1. a type of cart [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumpcart
Literary usage of Dumpcart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Everyday English, Book 1 by Jean Sherwood Rankin (1903)
"And would it not be a pity then to have only a sort of dumpcart as carriage for
the use of kings and queens of noble thought? ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"For a servant driving a dumpcart to invite a boy to drive it for the latter's
pleasure is not within the scope of the former's authority, and the master is, ..."
3. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"... the scraper, the dumpcart, the wagon, the horse-drawn car and the locomotive-drawn
train. The more expensive methods of transportation very greatly ..."
4. The Picturesque Hudson by Clifton Johnson (1909)
"A good deal of work was done with oxen. My father had a yoke. Once they ran away
when they was hitched to a dumpcart. ..."
5. Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New Hampshire by Board of Railroad Commissioners, New Hampshire (1910)
"Burton, fireman; James W. Clark, Ashland, NH George W. Martin, about 65 years of
age, while driving a pair of horses attached to a dumpcart upon the highway ..."
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