tipcart

[ tip-kahrt ]

noun

1. a cart with a body that can be tipped tip or tilted to empty it of its contents.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tipcart¹

First recorded in 1875–80; tip ² + cart

Example Sentences

Boys and girls, and old women, and middle-sized men, and every kind of a vehicle, from a tin tipcart to Mrs. Stubbs's carry-all.

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The town was poured over the slopes of the hill as though a titanic tipcart had let out its rubbish upon the summit.

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He was harnessed into a tipcart and we made him work for us.

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If he had, yo' could ha' driv a tipcart full o' rubbish in after it.

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