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Fly: A horse-drawn public coach or delivery wagon, especially one let out for hire. Four-in-hand coach; Gharry: A horse-drawn cab especially used in India. Gig (carriage): A light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse. Gladstone; Governess cart: a sprung cart with two inward-facing benches, high sides and entry at the back. The upper ...
Horse and cart at Beamish Museum (England, 2013) Dockworkers and hand cart (Haiti, 2006). A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand [1]) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.
A cart is a vehicle that is ordinarily pulled by a horse, so to put the cart before the horse is an analogy for doing things in the wrong order. [2] The figure of speech means doing things the wrong way round or with the wrong emphasis or confusing cause and effect. [3] [4] A horse pushing a cart in 1907 Paris
A tanga in Jaora, India. A tonga or tanga is a two-wheeled cart drawn by a single horse. It is used for transportation in the Indian subcontinent.There is a canopy over the body, one seat faces forward for the driver and one passenger, and one seat faces the rear for a second passenger.
The Sicilian cart (or carretto siciliano in Italian and carrettu sicilianu in Sicilian or carretti (plural)) is an ornate, colorful style of horse or donkey-drawn cart native to the island of Sicily, in Italy.
Feb. 25—In 1941, there were 95 mail routes in Spokane and five still used horse-drawn mail carts traveling the city's streets, including two in the downtown area. Mail superintendent John O ...
Other names for horse-carrying cars are "dandy cart" and "dandy truck": [8] they all refer to a vehicle on a horse-worked railway that a horse pulls to the top of the hill and rides down the hill in. The term "dandy cart" is also used to refer to horse-drawn passenger trains on occasion.
The 4-H youth were accompanied by adults in the carts. Mrozinski said a draft horse outside the arena somehow got spooked and ran into a cart pulled by another draft horse a short distance from ...