fish-cart, noun

In historical contexts. A horse-drawn cart formerly used in the streets of Cape Town by fish-vendors. Also attributive. See also fish horn.
1895 A.B. Balfour 1200 Miles in Waggon 15A cadger’s cart, in which fish is..hawked along the streets..with invariable accompaniment of a horn...The number of these fish-carts is extraordinary.
c1904 J.H. De Villiers in L.G. Green Old Men Say (1964) 64The fish carts cannot drive to every house, so the drivers must blow their horns.
1915 D. Fairbridge Torch Bearer 138Mrs Neethling..paused in blank amazement at..her distinguished lodger in parley with Abdol of the fish-cart.
a1920 O.E.A. Schreiner in D.L. Hobman Olive Schreiner (1955) 46In the streets were Malays; and fish carts blowing their horns.
1927 Outspan 18 Mar. 45Capetown also has to suffer..the long-drawn-out moan of the fish cart horn.
1949 J. Mockford Golden Land 48Through the streets a horse-drawn fish-cart rumbles, heralded by unmusical but far-travelling blasts from a horn blown by a Malay fishmonger.
1972 L.G. Green When Journey’s Over 147They have to be content with what may be dropped at their doors by those dreadful fish carts.
1974 A.P. Brink Looking on Darkness 84A fishcart..with the glistening smooth bodies of snoek and geelbek, kabeljou and mackerel.
1979 Voice 4 Mar. 7The fish-cart with its blaring horn summoning the people to buy cray-fish..or snoek fresh from the boats.
1987 Living June 104A Village Management Board..was soon busy regulating such things as..‘noisy hooting of fish cart drivers’.
A horse-drawn cart formerly used in the streets of Cape Town by fish-vendors. Also attributive.
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