mud-cartn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌdkɑːt/, U.S.

/ˈmədˌkɑrt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.¹, cart n.

Etymology: < mud n.¹ + cart n.

1. British. A street sweeper's cart (in quot. 1994 in figurative context). Cf. dung cart n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung

dung putt1313

dung cartc1405

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dung pot1575

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mud-cart1749

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1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. v. 37 Foul language..scoured out of her mouth, as filth doth from a mud-cart .

1821 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1952) X. 267 A London Nuisance... Passing a mud cart.

1876 Q. A. Gillmore Pract. Treatise Roads 119 Mr. Whitworth, of Manchester, invented a machine broom for sweeping up the mud and conveying it away. ‘It consists of a species of endless broom, passing around rollers attached to a mud cart, and so connected by cog wheels with the wheels of the cart.’

1994 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Sport) 24/3 ‘After the Lord Mayor's Show came the mud cart,’ Evans wryly observed. ‘It was our poorest performance of the season.’

†2. U.S. A dilapidated railway wagon, stagecoach, etc. Cf. mud wagon n. at mud n.¹ Compounds 2a. Obsolete.

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1840 N.-Y. Mirror 25 July 39/2 Nobody thinks nowadays of calling the conductor of a mud-cart on the rail-road by any less dignified title than an agent.

1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 34 It [sc. a stagecoach] was what the Missourians call a ‘mud cart’—a cross in fact between a second-hand bakers' wagon and a hospital ambulance which had seen hard service.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mud-cart
释义	mud-cartn. Brit. /ˈmʌdkɑːt/, U.S. /ˈmədˌkɑrt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.¹, cart n. Etymology: < mud n.¹ + cart n. 1. British. A street sweeper's cart (in quot. 1994 in figurative context). Cf. dung cart n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung dung putt1313 dung cartc1405 tumbril1440 dung pot1575 tumbler1673 mud-cart1749 tumbler-cart1880 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. v. 37 Foul language..scoured out of her mouth, as filth doth from a mud-cart . View more context for this quotation 1821 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1952) X. 267 A London Nuisance... Passing a mud cart. 1876 Q. A. Gillmore Pract. Treatise Roads 119 Mr. Whitworth, of Manchester, invented a machine broom for sweeping up the mud and conveying it away. ‘It consists of a species of endless broom, passing around rollers attached to a mud cart, and so connected by cog wheels with the wheels of the cart.’ 1994 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Sport) 24/3 ‘After the Lord Mayor's Show came the mud cart,’ Evans wryly observed. ‘It was our poorest performance of the season.’ †2. U.S. A dilapidated railway wagon, stagecoach, etc. Cf. mud wagon n. at mud n.¹ Compounds 2a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1840 N.-Y. Mirror 25 July 39/2 Nobody thinks nowadays of calling the conductor of a mud-cart on the rail-road by any less dignified title than an agent. 1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 34 It [sc. a stagecoach] was what the Missourians call a ‘mud cart’—a cross in fact between a second-hand bakers' wagon and a hospital ambulance which had seen hard service. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1749
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