† tax-cart Obs.
= taxed cart: see next, 2 a.
| 1796 J. Woodforde Diary 31 Oct. (1929) IV. 316 They came in Mrs. Bodhams little Tax-Cart. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xx. Poet. Epist. 29 While each tax-cart and shay To the Fair jolts away. 1837 Howitt Rur. Life vi. x. (1862) 503 Away they go, in gigs and tax-carts, or on scampering horses. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tax-cart, a spring-cart paying a low rate of duty. 1884 S. Dowell Taxation III. iii. iii. 231 Vehicles not over the value of 21 l., formerly termed ‘taxed carts’, and since their exemption from tax, usually called, in the provinces, tax carts. |