16-476: A dogcart (also dog-cart or dog cart ) is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or driven tandem . With seating for four, it was designed for sporting shooters and their gun dogs , with a louvred box under the driver's seat to contain dogs. It was developed in the early 1800s to afford more seating than the gig , which seats only two. Seating is two back-to-back crosswise seats, an arrangement called dos-à-dos from French. There
32-580: A common sight in that era . In Os Maias , the protagonist, Carlos, makes use of a dogcart "in great style" to move around Lisbon. Horse-drawn vehicle A horse-drawn vehicle is a piece of equipment pulled by one or more horses. These vehicles typically have two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport but are still in use today. Horses were domesticated circa 3500 BCE. Before that oxen were used. Historically,
48-426: A single file) have two shafts that attach either side of the rearmost animal (the wheel animal or wheeler ). Two animals in single file are referred to as a tandem arrangement, and three as a randem . Vehicles that are pulled by a pair (or by a team of several pairs) have a pole that attaches between the wheel pair. Other arrangements are also possible, for example, three or more abreast (a troika ),
64-443: A wheel pair with a single lead animal (a "unicorn"), or a wheel pair with three lead animals abreast (a "pickaxe"). Very heavy loads sometimes had an additional team behind to slow the vehicle down steep hills. Sometimes at a steep hill with frequent traffic, such a team would be hired to passing wagons to help them up or down the hill. Horse-drawn carriages have been in use for at least 3,500 years. Two-wheeled vehicles are balanced by
80-453: A wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing , which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed. A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads
96-419: Is a number , numeral and digit . It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3 . It is the smallest and the only even prime number . Because it forms the basis of a duality , it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures . Two is most commonly a determiner used with plural countable nouns, as in two days or I'll take these two . Two is a noun when it refers to
112-853: Is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or a pair of horses with a carriage pole. The dogcart phaeton seats four people and is arranged as two back-to-back crosswise seats, called dos-à-dos, with two people facing forward and two others facing the rear. Though the word cart generally means a two-wheeled vehicle, the name dogcart stuck when the body style was mounted on four-wheeled phaeton undercarriages . Other names for specific or regional designs of four-wheel dogcarts include Alexandra dogcart, Continental dogcart, Eridge car, Four-wheeled Ralli car, French Derby cart, Malvern dogcart, Martin's dogcart, and Village phaeton. Frequent references to dog-carts are made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his writings about fictional detective Sherlock Holmes , and by many other Victorian writers , as they were
128-768: Is a hinged tailboard which lowers slightly and, supported by chains, acts as a footrest for the rear-facing passengers. Some dogcarts had a mechanism to slide the entire body forward or rearward along the shafts to help balance the weight for the horse. Other names for specific or regional designs of dogcarts include Battlesden cart, Bent panel cart, Bounder, Country cart, Essex trap, Farmer's dogcart, Going-to-cover cart, High dogcart, Hurdle cart, Leamington cart, Malvern cart, Moray car, Newport Pagnell cart, Norfolk cart, Norfolk shooting cart, Nottingham cart, Oxford bounder, Oxford dogcart, Pony dogcart, Ralli dogcart, Sliding bodied dogcart, Surrey cart, Tandem cart, To-cart, Whitechapel cart, Worcester cart, and Worthing cart. A dogcart phaeton
144-637: Is also steered by the shafts or pole, which are attached to the front axle; this swivels on a turntable or "fifth wheel" beneath the vehicle. From the 15th century drivers of carts were known as carmen, and in London were represented by the Worshipful Company of Carmen . In 1890 there were 13,800 companies in the United States in the business of building carriages pulled by horses. By 1920, only 90 such companies remained. 2 (number) 2 ( two )
160-482: Is most commonly called a wagon . Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by donkeys (much smaller than horses ), ponies or mules . Other smaller animals are occasionally used, such as large dogs , llamas and goats (see draught animals ). Heavy wagons, carts and agricultural implements can also be pulled by other large draught animals such as oxen , water buffalo , yaks or even camels and elephants . Vehicles pulled by one animal (or by animals in
176-568: The Cantor set . Binary is a number system with a base of two, it is used extensively in computing . The digit used in the modern Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Indic Brahmic script , where "2" was written as two horizontal lines. The modern Chinese and Japanese languages (and Korean Hanja ) still use this method. The Gupta script rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal. The top line
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#1732851766374192-434: The 1st colossally abundant number . A digon is a polygon with two sides (or edges ) and two vertices . Two distinct points in a plane are always sufficient to define a unique line in a nontrivial Euclidean space . A set that is a field has a minimum of two elements . A Cantor space is a topological space 2 N {\displaystyle 2^{\mathbb {N} }} homeomorphic to
208-488: The Old English twā would thus be /twɑː/ , /twɔː/ , /twoː/ , /twuː/ , and finally /tuː/ . An integer is determined to be even if it is divisible by two. When written in base 10, all multiples of 2 will end in 0 , 2, 4, 6, or 8 . 2 is the smallest and the only even prime number , and the first Ramanujan prime . It is also the 1st superior highly composite number , the 2nd highly composite number , and
224-417: The distribution of weight of the load (driver, passengers, and goods) over the axle, and then held level by the animal – this means that the shafts (or sometimes a pole for two animals) must be fixed rigidly to the vehicle's body. Four-wheeled vehicles remain level on their own, and so the shafts or pole are hinged vertically, allowing them to rise and fall with the movement of the animals. A four-wheeled vehicle
240-462: The number two as in two plus two is four. The word two is derived from the Old English words twā ( feminine ), tū (neuter), and twēġen (masculine, which survives today in the form twain ). The pronunciation /tuː/ , like that of who is due to the labialization of the vowel by the w , which then disappeared before the related sound. The successive stages of pronunciation for
256-505: Was sometimes also shortened and had its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line. In the Nagari script, the top line was written more like a curve connecting to the bottom line. In the Arabic Ghubar writing, the bottom line was completely vertical, and the digit looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping
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