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Cart   /kɑrt/   Listen
noun
Cart  n.  
1.
A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart."
2.
A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. "Packing all his goods in one poor cart."
3.
A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
4.
An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads; also spelled carthorse.
Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope.
To put the cart before the horse, To get the cart before the horse, or To set the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause; to do things in an improper order.


verb
Cart  v. t.  (past & past part. carted; pres. part. carting)  
1.
To carry or convey in a cart.
2.
To expose in a cart by way of punishment. "She chuckled when a bawd was carted."


Cart  v. i.  To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.





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"Cart" Quotes from Famous Books



... MAMMA—-I wish you a merry Christmas, and papa and sisters and Claude too. I only hooped once to-day, and Nurse says I may go out when it gets fine. Fly is better. She sent me her dolls' house in a big box in a cart, and Mysie sent a new frock of her own making for Liliana, and Uncle William gave me a lovely doll, with waxen arms and legs, that shuts her eyes and squeals, and says Mamma; but I do not want anything but my own dear mamma, and all the rest. I ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... modern republics of Italy rank among the causes which prevented their assuming a widely conquering character, their extreme jealousy of their commanders, often wisely ridiculed by the great Italian historians; so that a baggage-cart could scarcely move, or a cannon be planted, without ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... noble animal, once the petted darling of wealth, caressed by ladies and children, and guarded so that even the winds of heaven might not visit him too roughly, fallen through the successive grades of equine degradation, until at last he hobbles before a clam-wagon or a swill-cart—a sorry relic of ...
— Rational Horse-Shoeing • John E. Russell
... play Mricchakatika or The Clay Cart (probably of the sixth century A.D.) a burglar invokes Kartikeya, the son of Siva, who is said to have taught ...
— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot
... some servitors leading horses carrying provisions for the journey, and valises with the clothes of Sir Eustace, his wife, and children, and a heavy cart drawn by four strong horses with the bundles of extra garments for the men-at-arms and archers, and several large sheaves of spare arrows. The men-at-arms wore iron caps, as also breast and back pieces. On the shoulders and arms of their leathern jerkins iron rings were sewn thickly, ...
— At Agincourt • G. A. Henty


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