tipcart
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tipcart
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid
If he had, yo' could ha' driv a tipcart full o' rubbish in after it.
From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
He was harnessed into a tipcart and we made him work for us.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas
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.
From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)
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