English Dictionary

slide-butt

名詞

ウェスト・カントリー方言 廃用

(West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.

日本語の意味

（古語）馬または牛が引く荷車で、車輪の代わりに滑車（ランナー）を用いており、主に糞などを運搬するために使用された車両

The old farmer backed the slide-butt up to the field edge and began shoveling the manure into it.

年老いた農夫は、馬や牛で引く糞運搬用のそりを畑の端に寄せ、そこへ糞をシャベルで積み始めた。

意味（1）

(West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.

The slide-butt is a strong, oblong box, sufficiently capacious to hold three or four common wheel-barrows of earth or compost; it is shod with thing rough pieces of timber, and is convenient of spreading dressing over field, in small heaps. Two oxen, or one horse are employed to draw it.

slide-butts （ plural ）