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What does "cart" mean?

Cart: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.To carry or convey in a cart.
  4. 5.To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.
  5. 6.To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

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