night-cart

See also: night cart

English

Noun

night-cart (plural night-carts)

1. (historical) Alternative form of night cart
   • 1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:

     This dismal box, mounted nakedly on four frail wheels, was drawn along by a pale, lean horse, and the driver sat severe in his shirt-sleeves and tattered hat, like some desperate blackguard driving a night-cart.

   • 1885, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, page 282:

     No person shall act as night-man or drive any night-cart within the limits of the city of Grafton, unless such person be authorised so to do by the said Council.

   • 2011, Talbot Mundy, Jimgrim and a Secret Society, →ISBN, page 87:

     And having found fault with an Egyptian policeman, who blew his whistle lustily from underneath the garbage in a night-cart into which I thrust him to teach him manners, I set out to put great distance between this hotel and me, not wishing that you sahibs should be disturbed on my account.