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haycart

haycart

7.0
A farm cart that carries hay, pulled by horses or oxen
  • noun
translation icon : carro de heno
  • The farmer loaded fresh hay onto the haycart before heading to the barn.

Examples

  • Then, at the last possible moment, Girard spies an escape: a slow-moving haycart rumbling up the country road.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • And the haycart shifts, depositing both men over the side and down to the small muddy creek below.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Just then: The haycart crosses a wooden plank bridge.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • He thudded onto a haycart exactly as the pigpen filled with squealing.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • As the sun set, the horse pulled the haycart filled with hay down the dirt road.

  • They used a colorful haycart to transport hay from the fields to the storage shed.

Synonyms

cart
vshaycart
297 1.0

A small vehicle with wheels that you push or pull to carry things

is designed mainly to carry loose hay on farms
wagon
vshaycart
88 1.0

A four-wheeled vehicle pulled by animals or a tractor to carry goods

is designed mainly to carry loose hay on farms
horse cart
vshaycart
1 2.7

A heavy cart pulled by a horse to carry goods or farm items

is designed mainly to carry loose hay on farms
oxcart
vshaycart
1 8.2

A cart pulled by oxen to carry goods or people

is designed mainly to carry loose hay on farms
horse-cart
vshaycart
2.4

A large cart pulled by a horse that carries goods or people

is designed mainly to carry loose hay on farms
dumpcart
vshaycart
  • US
7.4

A cart with a bed that tilts to empty heavy loads

is made for carrying hay rather than for tipping to unload

How Large

truck
  • US
1.0
wagon
88 1.0
haycart
7.0
cart
297 1.0
wheelbarrow
24 1.0

Surface Forms

haycart singular
haycarts plural

Morphology

haycart = hay + cart (transparent) = hay + cart

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'hay' and 'cart'—a cart used for carrying hay—readily inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word haycart is made from hay ('dried grass') and cart ('a vehicle with wheels'), so it literally names a cart for carrying hay. So, a haycart is the farm vehicle used to move and store hay.