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dustcart::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | garbage truck |
| Type of | motortruck, truck |
in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart.
Examples of dustcart
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I've never seen a campaign for male dinner-ladies, or for female dustcart drivers.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The notes were shipped out by dustcart.
From the guardian.co.uk
Standardisation of dimensions is important because the bins must be lifted by a standard sized hoist on the dustcart.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Bracknell Forest Borough Council has been collecting my wheelie bin with a one-man robot arm dustcart for the past two years.
From the newscientist.com
The dustcart, called the Sideloader, is fitted with a mechanical arm that silently plucks bins from the street and then empties their contents into the vehicle.
From the newscientist.com
They hope to speed up refuse collection in rural areas and small towns where dustbins are so scarce that dustcart drivers have to empty all the bins themselves.
From the newscientist.com
George Dempster invented the Dempster-Dumpster system in the 1930s for automatically loading the contents of standardized mobile steel containers onto the dustcart.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Garbage truck: a truck for collecting domestic refuse; "in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart"
- Garbage truck refers to a truck specially designed to collect small quantities of waste and haul the collected waste to a solid waste treatment facility. Other common names for this type of truck include dump truck in the United States, and dustcart, dustbin lorry and bin motor elsewhere. ...
