| 单词 | pest-cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspest-cart pest-cart n. now historical a cart for carrying away the bodies of the dead during a plague or pestilence (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for carrying dead bodies away > during a plague pest-cart1603 pest-coach1665 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. D1v After the world had once run vpon the wheeles of the Pest-cart. 1841 W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Pauls II. 68 The doleful bell announcing the approach of the pest-cart. 1924 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 39 697 The pest-cart, in which the noblest individuals, the finest embodiments of human ideal, are trundled off to a nameless and common grave. < as lemmas |
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