nightcart
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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"."
- "The nightcart travelled up and down city and suburban streets collecting pans full of sewage and replacing them with fresh empty ones."