ˈdung-cart
A cart used to convey manure.
| c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 216 He..fond A dong Carte as it went for to donge lond. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §146 To helpe her husbande to fyll the mucke wayne or donge cart. 1606 Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 48 What a spight it was to see a horse of seruice drawe in a doung-cart. 1865 Trollope Belton Est. xiii, If I thought that no one would see me, I'd fill a dung-cart or two. |
| fig. 1624 Heywood Captives i. i, Whele about thou dung cart of diseases. 1636 B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 764/2 Reducing all wit to the original dung-cart. |
Hence
dung-cartful, as much as fills a dung-cart.
| 1598 Mucedorus in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 235 I have kill'd a dungcartful at the least. a 1659 Cleveland Chym. Magic 18 Guts at least a Dung-cart full. |