jaunting car

American  

noun

1. a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.

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jaunting car British  

noun

1. a light two-wheeled one-horse car, formerly widely used in Ireland

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Etymology

Origin of jaunting car

First recorded in 1795–1805

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Example Sentences

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jaunting car

And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."

From Time Magazine Archive

After a long hunt we ascertained that a jaunting car had left the stand some hours previously and was still absent.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell

I left M—— in a little one-horse jaunting car, consisting of a wooden seat on an axle-tree, and four poles which supported a tarpaulin to shelter us against the rain.

From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine

His house was soon well furnished: she made him get her a jaunting car.

From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Samuel Lover

I proposed to Anna a little trip to Lough Neagh in a jaunting car.

From My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Alexander Irvine

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