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Jaunting car

noun
1.
An open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland.  Synonym: jaunty car.






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"Jaunting car" Quotes from Famous Books



... there, he met me at the station, driving a jaunting car, and drove me up to the castle, which, by the way, he called a 'house shanty.' I found that he was 'pigging it' there with his boy brother and another American, who seemed to be half-servant and half-companion. It seems that all the servants had left the place, in a body, ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson

... first I knew CH-RL-S ST-RT, 'Twas in a happier day, The Jaunting Car he drove in Went gaily all the way. But now the Car seems all askew, Lop-wheel'd, and slack of spring; Myself and WILL, in fear of a spill, Feel little disposed to sing, As we sit on the Jaunting Car, The drivers at open war, Seem little to ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various



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