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Scotch cart Chiefly S. Afr.
Also scotch cart.
[Prob. f. Scotch a. + cart n.; S. Afr. uses may represent derivation from Afrikaans skotskar, ad. G. schuttkarren, but this is unproved.]
A light and strongly built two-wheeled cart, used chiefly for transporting rough materials such as gravel, manure, etc.
1845Cape of Good Hope Almanac (Advt.), Best Scotch Carts and wheelbarrows made to order. 1850Mary Wedlake's Priced List Farming Implements 33 (heading) Scotch Carts. These very light carriages, so superior in point of draught to the old heavy dung carts used in most counties of England, are daily substituted for those ponderous machines. 1895R. Churchill Men, Mines & Animals in S. Afr. xiii. 210, I accordingly borrowed a Scotch cart (a light two-wheeled covered waggon) and a span of eight oxen, with which went also two ‘salted’ horses. 1938D. Forbes My Life in S. Afr. vi. 87 He also fixed up a scotch cart to carry the alluvial ground to the stream. 1949Cape Argus Mag. 14 May 2/6 At first a few skins were sent in from farms, then..they began to arrive in sugar pockets,..and finally by the Scotch-cart load. 1970G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All i. 31 A Scotch cart was popular round here... They'd carry about a ton. Ibid. 34 The extra spokes and felloes on a Scotch cart were probably needed on its home ground where a strong wheel was essential on a rougher terrain than is to be found in East Anglia. 1974Standard Encycl. S. Afr. X. 571/1 The Scotch-cart, with or without springs, was always popular with farmers because it could be tilted backwards to enable its load to be discharged. |