tipcart

American  

[tip-kahrt] / ˈtɪpˌkɑrt /

noun

1. a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.

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Etymology

Origin of tipcart

First recorded in 1875–80; tip ² + cart

Example Sentences

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)

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.]

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