dingle cart n [Perh < EDD dingle v.3 “To vibrate, resound, tremble”] eNEng, esp NH
A kind of horse-drawn cart.
1863 Exeter News-Letter & Rockingham Advt. (NH) [2 Mar 3]/6, [Advt:] Two Carriage Harnesses, one Dingle Cart, Three Hundred Pounds of Salt Pork. 1875 Boston Daily Globe (MA) 27 Aug 4/5 seNH, Every farmer in the vicinity has “rigged up” his “hay-rack,” or that peculiar vehicle which is known about here as “dingle cart,” and distinguishes his “craft” from his “sea-weed” brethren by a large poster on the side—“Camp ground; $1 Round Trip.” 1897 Boston Daily Globe (MA) 22 Aug 10/8, [Advt:] 32-acre farm for sale, . . 3 sheds, dingle cart, pung, 2 riding wagons, sled. . . Address Ezra Walker, W. Epping, N. H. 1906 Portsmouth Herald (NH) 11 Jan [4]/3, The horse had a heavy harness, collar and hames, and was hitched to a dingle cart that was once painted blue. 1911 Shute Plupy 361 seNH (as of 1860s), They would load up a dingle cart with furniture and drive Nellie up to the new house. . . Nellie was a fast trotter, the old dingle cart rattled tremendously. 1941 Lewiston Eve. Jrl. (ME) 6 June 21/4, [Advt:] Two oil incubators, barrels, dingle cart. 1958 Greenfield Recorder–Gaz. (MA) 23 Aug 3/6, New and different attractions will be added this year, including . . a ride in an old dingle cart.