Dictionary Definition

dogcart n : a cart drawn by a dog

User Contributed Dictionary

dogcart

A cart drawn by a dog.
A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.

1903 At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. — The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

See

A dogcart is:

a cart or carriage (light wheeled vehicle):
- a light, usually one-horse carriage that is commonly two-wheeled and high, with two transverse seats set back to back. It was known as a bounder in British slang (not to be confused with the cabriolet of the same name). In India it was called a tumtum (possibly an altered form of tandem). A dogcart having four wheels and seats set back to back was a dos-à-dos. Another four-wheeled dogcart was called a game cart. A young or small groom called a tiger sometimes rode, usually standing, on a platform at the rear of a dogcart driven by the person on whom he was in attendance.
- an open, often horse-drawn cart designed to carry hunting dogs in a cage between two cross-seats back to back; the dogs could be penned between the rear-facing seat and the back end. Frequent references to dogcarts are made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his writings about fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
- a cart with light loads, pulled by one or more dogs. Dog carts pulled by a single dog were sometimes used by peddlers; dog carts pulled by two or more dogs were historically used in Belgium and The Netherlands for delivering milk). Dog-drawn carts were prohibited in Britain in the early 1900s on animal welfare grounds, but some still exist (mainly for reasons of novelty) in France and Belgium for delivering churns of milk from small farms to the dairy. Compare dog sled (pulled by a team).
the automobile model CGA Dogcart

dogcart in French: dogcart

dogcart in German: Hundewagen