nightcart

English

Noun

nightcart (plural nightcarts)

1. Alternative form of night cart
   • 1891, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia:

     Any person who shall be desirous to exercise or practice the business of a nightman, or drive any nightcart, within the limits of the town of Port Pirie, without a licence from the town council of the said town first obtained, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.

   • 1969, Jacqueline Templeton, Prince Henry's: The Evolution of a Melbourne Hospital, 1869-1969, page 91:

     He found, on his visit in 1887, that the pans discharged through earthenware pipes into a nightcart tank in the basement, which was taken away and emptied three times a week by a private contractor, whose duty it was to remove the night-soil "to some place outside the suburban boundaries".

   • 2013, Phillip Knightley, R M Crawford, Australia, →ISBN, page 46:

     The nightcart travelled up and down city and suburban streets collecting pans full of sewage and replacing them with fresh empty ones.