dung-pot Now dial.
A tub for carrying manure, etc., of which a pair is borne by a pack-horse; also a low-wheeled cart for the same purpose.
| 1388–9 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 58, Ij wylpottis..j dung-pot. 1552 Huloet, Dunge cart or dunge potte made of wickers, scirpea. 1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 10. §1 Everye person..shalbe charged to finde..one Carte..Tumbrell, Dounge Pott or Courte..for..repayringe of the Highe wayes. c 1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 171 A horse w{supc}{suph} draws a sort of carriage, the wheeles like a Dung-pott. 1881 in Isle of Wight Gloss. 1888 in Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. |