Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rude, like a carter, or like a carter's occupation.
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David into a carterly metre, "thinking thereby," says Anthony à Wood, in his delightfully colloquial fashion, "that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted."
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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