| 单词 | quarter cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter cart quarter cart n. now rare (regional in later use) a kind of horse-drawn cart, spec. a farm cart designed so that the horse walks in front of one of the wheels (cf. sense 29). Sc. National Dict. at quarter records the sense (from east Lothian in 1967): ‘Quarter cart, a spring cart drawn by a pony or hackney formerly used for transporting light articles to and from a farm’. ΚΠ 1771 H. Steward Catal. Furnit. Francis Laprimaudaye 1 A Whisky, Quarter Cart, two Pair of seasoned Chestnut Geldings, Harness for four Horses. 1789 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1947) 27 Dec. 558/2 A quarter cart. 1791 J. H. Prince Let. in Orig. Lett. & Ess. 52 My next business was to procure a vehicle, and as I could get none but quarter carts at Arston, which I could not drive, I was necessitated to go to Cambridge. 1804 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Norfolk 227 Mr. Drake..carts off his turnips with quarter-carts. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 277 The carting off the cabbages..is done with a quarter-cart, as it is termed in Suffolk, having the shafts so placed that the horse walks before the right hand wheel; in other words, it ‘quarters’. < as lemmas |
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