Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to a wagon or cart.
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With much more clearness and historic comfort we may approach the shrine of St. Cecilia; and even on the most prosaic and realistic minds -- such as my own -- a visit to her house in Rome has a comforting and establishing effect, which reminds one of the carter in 'Harry and Lucy,' who is convinced of the truth of a plaustral catastrophe at first incredible to him, as soon as he hears the name of the hill on which it happened.
The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford John Ruskin 1859
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