Obs. = Taxed cart: see next, 2 a.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life, xx. Poet. Epist., 29. While each tax-cart and shay To the Fair jolts away.
1837. Howitt, Rur. Life, VI. x. (1862), 503. Away they go, in gigs and tax-carts, or on scampering horses.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tax-cart, a spring-cart paying a low rate of duty.
1884. Dowell, Taxation, III. III. iii. 231. Vehicles not over the value of 21 l., formerly termed ‘taxed carts,’ and since their exemption from tax, usually called, in the provinces, tax carts.
