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Bevan had thought of blowing this up before leaving, for his cart was already too full to take it in, but the hope that it might not be discovered, and that he might afterwards return to fetch it away, induced him to spare it Of course all the flasks and horns of the band were replenished from this store, but there was still left a full third of the cask which they could not carry away.

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  1. noun A small wheeled vehicle typically pushed by hand: a shopping cart; a pastry cart.
  2. noun A two-wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal and used in farm work and for transporting goods.
  3. noun The quantity that a cart can hold.
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  • The woman behind the cart was about ten years younger than Adelaide, in a gray suit with a matching leather briefcase. —  AHMM,May2006
  • The children and the cart are already waiting for us on the edge of town. —  Robin Hobb
  • It took me a very long time to realize that neither Clove nor the cart were there. —  forestmage
  • The R4i, is still not in the Philippines but information about the cart is already available online. —  PinoyBlogoSphere.com (PBS)
  • Sanitizing a cart is as easy as pushing it through the cleaning station where the solution is automatically sprayed on, and for non-wheeled items like a basket or a child seat a wand is also provided to make purifying them just as easy. —  GEARFUSE
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  1. Middle English, wagon, from Old English cræt and from Old Norse kartr.

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  1. from Middle English cart, kart, from Anglo-Saxon cræt, transposed from cært, = Dutch krat, kret = Icelandic kartr; of Celtic origin: from Welsh cart = Gaelic and Irish cairt, a cart, diminutive of Irish carr = Gaelic car, a car: see car, and cf. charet, chariot.
  2. from Middle English carten, from cart, n.
 

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