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cart

[ kahrt ]

noun

  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.


verb (used with object)

  1. to haul or convey in or as if in a cart or truck:

    to cart garbage to the dump.

verb (used without object)

  1. to drive a cart.

verb phrase

  1. to transport or take away in an unceremonious manner:

    The police came and carted him off to jail.

CART

1

abbreviation for

  1. Championship Auto Racing Teams


cart

2

/ kɑːt /

noun

  1. a heavy open vehicle, usually having two wheels and drawn by horses, used in farming and to transport goods
  2. a light open horse-drawn vehicle having two wheels and springs, for business or pleasure
  3. any small vehicle drawn or pushed by hand, such as a trolley
  4. put the cart before the horse
    put the cart before the horse to reverse the usual or natural order of things

verb

  1. usually tr to use or draw a cart to convey (goods, etc)

    to cart groceries

  2. tr to carry with effort; haul

    to cart wood home

cart

3

/ kɑːt /

noun

  1. radio television short for cartridge

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Derived Forms

  • ˈcarter, noun
  • ˈcartable, adjective

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Other Words From

  • carta·ble adjective
  • carter noun
  • un·carted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cart1

before 900; Middle English cart ( e ), Old English cræt (by metathesis); cognate with Old Norse kartr cart

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cart1

C13: from Old Norse kartr; related to Old English cræt carriage, Old French carete; see car

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on the water cart, British. wagon ( def 14 ).
  2. put the cart before the horse, to do or place things in improper order; be illogical.

More idioms and phrases containing cart

  • upset the applecart

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Example Sentences

Or maybe it was from the handles of a grocery store shopping cart.

So he turned around, and got in the back of the golf cart that was supposed to take him back to his car.

Nearby a family of Turkish Kurds busied themselves in their fields piling vegetables onto a donkey-drawn cart.

She wheels an injured boy out in a shopping cart full of watermelons.

Brand pushes her cart with Ashton in it alongside her coworkers (one of whom was later killed in the attack).

There is no part of these castings but may be easily conveyed in a common butt or cart.

Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.

The horse, whose health had been drunk in his absence, was standing outside, ready harnessed to the cart.

The sand-cart swerved aside at the same moment, and Tony, from a distance, came galloping back towards them.

The boys arrived with the animals and sand-cart; the baskets were quickly arranged, Tony mounted, Tom helped Lettice in.

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