Cartage

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The transport of goods by cart..

Definitions by Sense

1. The transport of goods by cart.
2. Any vehicular transportation of goods.
3. A charge made for such transport.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: wagonage

Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted

In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.

Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage

I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.

1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.

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• cartages

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