Meaning of dumpcart | Babel Free

Definitions

A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.

Examples

“When James' Bay mud flats had become⟳ too "towny" to be a rubbish heap any more, the little two-wheeled, one-horse dump-carts trundled their loads of garbage to the unmade end⟳ of Cook⟳ Street and spilled it among the boggy ooze.”

“1955, Albert Camus, "The Minotaur, or the Stop⟳ in Oran" (1939), translated by Justin O'Brien, New York: Vintage, 1991, p. 176, Farther on, dump-carts tip⟳ their loads over the slopes; and the rocks, suddenly poured seaward, bound and roll into the water, each large lump followed by a scattering of lighter stones.”

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