Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small wheeled vehicle typically pushed by hand: a shopping cart; a pastry cart.
- n. A two-wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal and used in farm work and for transporting goods.
- n. The quantity that a cart can hold.
- n. An open two-wheeled carriage.
- n. A light motorized vehicle: a golf cart.
- v. To convey in a cart or truck: cart away garbage.
- v. To convey laboriously or unceremoniously; lug: carted the whole gang off to jail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A car or chariot.
- n. A two-wheeled vehicle, shorter and higher set than a car, usually for one horse and often without springs, for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- n. A cart-load. A cart of coals was formerly in England 8¾ hundredweight by statute.
- To carry or convey in a cart: as, to cart goods.
- To expose in a cart, by way of punishment.
- To use carts for carriage.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
- n. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go cart.
- n. A cartridge for a video game system.
- v. To carry goods.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
- n. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
- n. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
- n. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
- n. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
- v. To carry or convey in a cart.
- v. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
- n. a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
- v. draw slowly or heavily
- v. transport something in a cart
Etymologies
- Middle English, wagon, from Old English cræt and from Old Norse kartr.
Examples
“Check out the post card seller, his cart is adorable.”
“A good balance of spices, combined with a creamy, and delicious white sauce, this cart is also the only one that gave us bread, without asking.”
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“The chicken at this cart is actually not bad, with big chunks of white meat”
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“We like to be helpful and take a cart from the lot.”
“Fauchelevent, a male Valjean saved from being crushed by a cart, is there as good as some-more than peaceful to compensate off a preference by giving them a place to say.”
“The cart is before the horse, just to keep the metaphor thing going, not to mention that Kolhammer, as you may recall, is not personally disposed to elective office – just the opposite, in fact.”
“The chicken was run over by a car — and it was picked up by a woman who rescues birds," she says, noting that this job required a special design: The cart is a small semicircular device the chicken rests in.”
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“Woman in cart waiting to collect curative water at Lourdes”
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