cart

(kärt)

a. A small wheeled vehicle typically pushed by hand: a shopping cart; a pastry cart.

b. A two-wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal and used in farm work and for transporting goods.

c. The quantity that a cart can hold.

a. An open two-wheeled carriage.

b. A light motorized vehicle: a golf cart.

tr.v. cart·ed, cart·ing, carts

1. To convey in a cart or truck: cart away garbage.

2. To convey laboriously or unceremoniously; lug: carted the whole gang off to jail.

[Middle English, wagon, from Old English cræt and from Old Norse kartr.]

cart′a·ble adj.

cart′er n.

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Noun

carting - the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it

cartage

hauling, trucking, truckage - the activity of transporting goods by truck

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One was Justice, a roan cob, used for riding or for the luggage cart; the other was an old brown hunter, named Sir Oliver; he was past work now, but was a great favorite with the master, who gave him the run of the park; he sometimes did a little light carting on the estate, or carried one of the young ladies when they rode out with their father, for he was very gentle and could be trusted with a child as well as Merrylegs.

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