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

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

This jaunting car is one I had sent over from Paris, to help my ponies get a blue ribbon at the Hill'n'dale horse show.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

Once when driving with him on a jaunting car in Dublin, he asked me, did I know so-and-so, and I answered promptly in Mr. Winkle’s words, “I don’t know him, but I have seen him.”

From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald

The jaunting car of Ireland is a vehicle peculiar to that country alone.

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

As nearly every one knows, a jaunting car is a two-wheeled affair.

From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton