Definition of "watering-cart" [watering-cart]

• A barrel or cistern mounted on wheels, used for watering plants. (noun)
• A large tank, of whatever form, mounted on a wagon-body, used for watering streets. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The air was warm, the women were wearing light-coloured dresses, and a municipal watering-cart was slowly sprinkling one half of the roadway."
• "It is best applied with the watering-cart, but must be diluted before use with three or four times its bulk of water, as if concentrated it burns up the grass, and it is also advisable to use it during wet weather."
• "The driver of the watering-cart jerked his thumb backward toward the river and replied:"