Cart
[kɑːt] or [kɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
(verb.) transport something in a cart.
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Definition
(n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
(n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
(n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
(n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
(v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.
(v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
(v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
Editor: Megan
Definition
n. a two-wheeled vehicle without springs used for farm purposes and for conveying heavy loads.—v.t. to convey in a cart: to carry publicly in a cart as a punishment—formerly done to bawds.—ns. Cart′age the act or cost of carting; Cart′er one who drives a cart; Cart′-horse a horse used for drawing a cart; Cart′-house a shed for keeping carts; Cart′-load as much as a cart can carry; Cart's-tail the hind part of a cart; Cart′way a road or way by which carts may pass; Cart′wright a carpenter who makes carts; T′-cart a four-wheeled open phaeton seated for four its ground-plan resembling a T—see also Dog-cart Mail-cart Tax-cart &c.—Put the cart before the horse to reverse the natural order of things.—Village Cart an uncovered two-wheeled carriage for one horse with a low body and one seat; Whitechapel cart or Chapel cart a light two-wheeled spring-cart much used by butchers in delivering goods to their customers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ your time if you would keep supplies for your family. To see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends. To dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success in business and other aspirations. For lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite of the machinations of rivals.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v. t., To take off.
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Examples
- It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A single man in a dog-cart, so far as I could see. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The first thing I knew about it was when I saw you two gentlemen driving back in her dog-cart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For the cart so hard to draw is near its journey's end and drags over stony ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At the conclusion of the engagement, a place had been found for the poor boy in a cart, and he had been brought back to Brussels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Have ye brought your cart far up, neighbour reddleman? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We trucked freight across the mountains with the big carts before the camions came into use. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- First he had the entrances to the streets blocked off with carts as though to organize the plaze for a _capea_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I got out and walked ahead, going between the trucks and carts and under the wet necks of the horses. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Let the contents of the larder and the wine-cellar be brought up, put into the hay-carts, and driven down to the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There were many trucks too and some carts going through on other streets and converging on the main road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I have been carted out of Marseilles in the dead of night, and carried leagues away from it packed in straw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But, Mr Wegg,' urged Venus, 'it was your own idea that he should not be exploded upon, till the Mounds were carted away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It'll begin to be carted off to-morrow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. McCormick tried the machine in the harvesting of 1816, but it would not work, and had to be carted away to the workshop as an invention gone wrong. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The last day came; the house was full of packing-cases, which were being carted off at the front door, to the nearest railway station. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Who set this chap on, in this dress, when the carting began? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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