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[kahrt] 
| 1. | a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods. |
| 2. | a light two-wheeled vehicle with springs, drawn by a horse or pony. |
| 3. | any small vehicle pushed or pulled by hand. |
| 4. | Obsolete. a chariot. |
| 5. | to haul or convey in or as if in a cart or truck: to cart garbage to the dump. |
| 6. | to drive a cart. |
| 7. | cart off or away, to transport or take away in an unceremonious manner: The police came and carted him off to jail. |
| 8. | on the water cart, British. wagon (def. 14). |
| 9. | put the cart before the horse, to do or place things in improper order; be illogical. |
bef. 900; ME cart(e), OE cræt (by metathesis); c. ON kartr cart
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| cart (kärt) n.
[Middle English, wagon, from Old English cræt and from Old Norse kartr.] cart'a·ble adj., cart'er n. |
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Cart\, n. [AS. cr[ae]t; 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. "Ph[oe]bus' 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.Cart
Cart\, v. i. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.Cite This Source
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a vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam. 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, _'agalah_ (1 Sam. 6:7, 8), is also rendered "wagon" (Gen. 45:19). It is used also to denote a war-chariot (Ps. 46:9). Carts were used for the removal of the ark and its sacred utensils (Num. 7:3, 6). After retaining the ark amongst them for seven months, the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. On this occasion they set it in a new cart, probably a rude construction, with solid wooden wheels like that still used in Western Asia, which was drawn by two milch cows, which conveyed it straight to Beth-shemesh. A "cart rope," for the purpose of fastening loads on carts, is used (Isa. 5:18) as a symbol of the power of sinful pleasures or habits over him who indulges them. (See CORD.) In Syria and Palestine wheel-carriages for any other purpose than the conveyance of agricultural produce are almost unknown.
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In addition to the idioms beginning with cart, also see upset the applecart.
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