| 单词 | taxed cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmastaxed cart taxed cart n. a two-wheeled (originally springless) open cart drawn by one horse, and used mainly for agricultural or trade purposes, on which was charged only a reduced duty (afterwards taken off entirely). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > open, one horse taxed cart1795 tax-cart1796 1795 Act 35 Geo. III c. 109 §2 For and upon every Carriage with less than four Wheels,..which shall have the Words ‘A taxed Cart’, and also the Owner's Name and Place of Abode, there shall be charged and paid the yearly Sum of ten Shillings. 1796 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 2) II. Suppl. 115 Taxed Carts. 1837 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 2nd Ser. 84 The remission of taxation upon what by an odd perversion is called a taxed cart. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xxxviii. 55 The innkeeper..offered to take him back to Oakbourne in his own ‘taxed cart’. < as lemmas |
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