dust cart

noun

, British.

First recorded in 1770–80

The body was thrown into a dust-cart and taken to Versailles, where the fine ladies gathered to enjoy the spectacle.

The streets were empty and very quiet—only the slow rattle of the dust-cart and the measured step of policemen changing beats.

And as it did this I noticed that a dust-cart was just in front of us.

He was chief of the municipal officers, dust-cart, water-supply, electric light and so on.

An English dust-cart is a piece of finery, a chef d'auvre of mechanism, compared with them and the horses!

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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