a one-horse carriage originally designed for hunters. It contains a compartment that can be used for retriever dogs, game or luggage.
image: Pearson Scott Foresman, donated to the Wikimedia Foundation
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Uses:
the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven,
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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“The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit on the left-hand side of the driver.”
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band