Cart

/kɑːt/ · noun

Meaning

A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet) A shopping cart.
4. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
5. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.
6. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
8. (radio) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.

Example Sentences

The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

"You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"

I've been carting these things around all day.

On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis

Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.

Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.

She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted

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Word Forms

• carts
• carting
• carted

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