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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



... which the supporting, or rather non-supporting, pillars are still to be seen. But the bridge fell down, one day, into the river; and—alas! alas!—with the bridge fell down an old woman, and a boy, and a cart—a cart and horse—and all found a watery grave together in the spray. No attempt has been made since that to renew the suspension bridge; but the present wooden bridge has been built higher up in lieu ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope

... note of a solitary cuckoo was heard first in one place, then in another; the friendly cawing of rooks was carried from the distance beyond the mill pond, sounding like the creaking of innumerable cart wheels. Light clouds floated dreamily over this gentle stillness, spreading themselves out like the breasts of some ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev

... large coach, and each horse would put on and take off. There was a man to drive, who sat on the box, and who had a long whip in his hand; and, more than all, the doors of the coach would turn back, and they would shut! There was a hay cart, and in it were three men with smock frocks; and there were some dolls in gay clothes—a great deal too smart to make hay, but they were so nice and so neat! and then all their things would take off and on, and they had large round ...
— The Book of One Syllable • Esther Bakewell

... get possession of him. With a bound forward like that of a stricken animal he started in blind flight. He came to a crossing, and rushed upon it regardless of the traffic, Before he could gain the farther pavement the shaft of a cart struck him on the breast and threw him down. The vehicle was going at a slow pace, and could be stopped almost immediately; he was not touched by the wheel. A man helped him to his feet and ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing

... cart rope, and cast it over the Giant's two heads, with a slip knot, and by the help of horses he dragged him out again, nearly strangled, before he would let him loose. He cut off both his heads with his Sword of sharpness, in the view of all the ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford


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