democrat †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light, two-horse wagon, having springs and two, sometimes three, seats.

Quotations

1885

Headquarters for Buggies, Buckboards, Phaetons, Democrats, Sleighs and Cutters New and Second Hand.

1916

Some were skimming along in . . . double or triple-seated light wagons -- "democrats" they were called.

1964

When the democrat, successor to the Red River cart, had to be abandoned, the cayuse accepted a life he had been accustomed to as a pack horse.