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Definition of Dustcart
1. Noun. A truck for collecting domestic refuse. "In Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart"
Definition of Dustcart
1. Noun. (British) A garbage truck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dustcart
1. a cart for removing rubbish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustcart
Literary usage of Dustcart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1882)
"His name is “dustcart,” he says; but if any one pretends to mistake, and calls
him “Dustbin,” he is extremely affronted. “I'm going to give you a handsome ..."
2. Proceedings (1891)
"All householders are on the alert to have their bucketful of refuse at the door
before the dustcart passes, and so before 9 or 10 o'clock each morning this ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"You abused me out of the Times' window; but if ever your noble honour sent me a
gratuity out of your own door, may I never drive another dustcart ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1871)
"... President's platform permeable to wain and dustcart ; for the Rue de Rivoli
runs there. Verily, at Cockcrow (of this Cock or the other), all Apparitions ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"Kossuth coming, was greater than Washington ; Kossuth leaving, attracted no more
attention than the dustcart on which all the filth of the newspaper offices ..."
6. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1898)
"... or twelve,' as the case might be; a give burial to these ' savage Unitarios';
their up by the dustcart and carried away to the comi man was suspected of ..."
7. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1888)
"... must "sweep their novel-fabric into the dustcart, and betake themselves with
such faculty as they have to understand and record what is true. ..."
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