Cart , v. i. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a
carter.
Cart , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carted;
p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Prior.
Cart (?), n. [AS. cræt; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel.
kartr. Cf. Car.]
1.
A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian
dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phœbus' cart." Shak.
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.
Dryden.
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. -- Cart load, or Cartload,
as much as will fill
or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of
a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is
estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or
get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the
order of related facts or ideas, as by putting
an effect for a cause.
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