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dumpcart

[ duhmp-kahrt ]

noun

  1. a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dumpcart1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; dump + cart
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Example Sentences

And Fred never comes downstairs save on his stomach—and on the banisters—and lands on the doormat like a load of brick out of a dumpcart.

A part of it strikes De Young's dumpcart abaft the axletree and flings him, hurtling, skyward, a thing of legs and arms, to descend on the distant mountains, where it is cold.

Timothy Fagan was used to animals—for years he had driven a dumpcart.

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