Cape cart

British  

noun

1. a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood

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Example Sentences

“Hallo! some one’s turned up,” said Armitage, indicating the white tent of a Cape cart, which stood outspanned before the stable-door, with the harness lying beside the swingle bars.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

I had nothing but a Cape cart and a couple of horses to draw it—a thing that holds, with one's kit, about three hundred pounds of forage.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson

Oh, it was your father then that you brought with you in the Cape cart.

From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel

We owned six horses and a light running two-seated Cape cart that served to make our excursions into the surrounding country delightful.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise

We started at five o’clock, provided with a span of four horses and a fine Cape cart, in which there was plenty of room for ourselves and our contribution to the luncheon.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise