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Cart
·vt To carry or convey in a cart.
II. Cart ·noun An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
III. Cart ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cart
A vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam. 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, '...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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cart
To put the cart before the horse; to mention the last part of a story first. To be flogged at the ca...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cart
(Genesis 45:19,27; Numbers 7:3,7,8) a vehicle drawn by cattle, (2 Samuel 6:6) to be distinguished fr...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Rake
·vi To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
II. Rake ·vi To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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rake
to rake a fire, to heap small coals on the fire, that it may burn all the night, practised in the No...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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rake
The projection of the upper parts of a ship, at both ends, beyond the extremities of the keel. Also,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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T cart
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Tandem cart
·add. ·- A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water cart
·- A cart carrying water; ·esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, ·e...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cart Yard
West out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street. In Portsoken Ward.
So called in Rocque's map, 1746, ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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apple cart
Down with his apple-cart; knock or throw him down.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bankrupt cart
A one-horse chaise, said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently use...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cart-piece
An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Muck rake
·add. ·- A rake for scraping up muck or dung. ·see <<Muckrake>>, ·vi, below.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Rake-vein
·noun ·see <<Rake>>, a mineral vein.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Top rake
·add. ·- The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the sur...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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duddering rake
A thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one extremely lewd.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rake, rakehell
or RAKESHAME
A lewd, debauched fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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after-rake
That part of the hull which overhangs the after-end of keel.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fore-rake
That part of the hull which rakes beyond the fore-end of the keel.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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keel-rake
Synonymous with keel-haul. See keel-hauling.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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over-rake
When a ship rides at anchor in a head-sea, the waves of which frequently break in upon her, they are...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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rudder-rake
The aftermost part of the rudder.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fallen away from a horse load to a cart load
A saying on one grown fat.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose