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billycart
A child's homemade go-cart, historically sometimes pulled by a goat.
In a sentence
The children raced their homemade billycarts down the gentle hill.
Where it came from
Billycart has named a child’s small homemade cart in Australia since the nineteenth century. Early carts could be pulled by a goat called a billy, which may explain the name.
- Initial era
- 1850–1899
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established
- Use today
- Current but less common