milk cart
Morning dairy transport
A milk cart is a small wheeled vehicle used to deliver milk to homes, traditionally pulled by a horse and driven by a milkman making early morning rounds.
The term evokes a bygone era before refrigeration and supermarkets, when daily doorstep delivery was standard: The milk cart rattled down the street at dawn.
In British usage, milk float—an electric vehicle—largely replaced the horse-drawn cart.
- dairyMilk-based foods collectively
- dairy farmLivestock operation for milk
- horseDomesticated riding animal
- wagonWheeled hauling vehicle
- bottlesNarrow-necked liquid containers
glass bottles · delivery · door to door · dawn · early morning · cream · churn · doorstep · front porch · float · clink · route · pint · glass · crate · morning · clatter · cobblestones
- cartspushcart, handcart, trolley, market basket, shopping trolley
- horse cartsgig
milk cartrefrigerated truck
Temperature-controlled freight vehicle
reefer truck · semi-trailer · eighteen-wheeler · cargo plane · container ship
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