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cart (iou)



cart noun & verb. [kɑ:t] ME.

A. noun.
A chariot, a carriage. ME-E17.
Shakespeare Hamlet Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground.
A strong two-wheeled or four-wheeled conveyance usu. with a low-sided rectangular body, used esp. in farming and for carrying heavy goods, and formerly for conveying convicts to the gallows and for the public exposure of offenders: without contrary specification usu. understood as horse-drawn. ME.
bullock-cart, handcart, etc. dustcart, hay-cart, etc.
Robert Burton As good horses draw in carts as coaches. A. E. Housman Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Day Lewis The rest of the flat cart was filled with hens for the market.
A light two-wheeled one-horse vehicle for driving in. E19.
dogcart etc.
Phrases: in the cart slang in an awkward or losing position; in trouble. put the cart before the horse reverse the proper order of things; take an effect for a cause.
Comb.: cart-body the part of a cart in which the load is placed; cart-horse (orig.) a horse used to draw a cart; (now) a strong thickset horse fit for heavy work; cart-load a cartful; a large quantity of something (a cart-load of monkeys: see MONKEY noun); cartman a man who drives a cart; cart-road a rough road suitable only for carts and other farm vehicles; cart-rut a deep rut cut in soft ground by the wheels of a cart; cart's tail, cart tail the rear of a cart, to which formerly offenders were tied to be dragged through the streets or flogged; cart-track (a) a rough track suitable only for carts and other farm vehicles; (b) a cart-rut; cart tail: see cart's tail above; cart-way a rough way suitable only for carts and other farm vehicles; CARTWHEEL; cart-whip a long heavy horse-whip; cartwright a maker of carts.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Work with or use a cart. rare. LME.
verb trans. Convey or transport (as) in a cart; colloq. carry (esp. something cumbersome or heavy) over an unduly long distance, carry or take unceremoniously. LME.
cart off remove, esp. by force.
De Quincey We were all carted to the little town. J. K. Jerome Harris and I..carted out our luggage on to the doorstep. F. Astaire She took on the challenging job of carting her two brats to New York in search of a career.
b. Convey publicly in a cart as a means of punishment. obsolete exc. Hist. M16.
G. Crabbe Suspected, tried, condemned, and carted in a day.
verb trans. Get (someone) into trouble; betray the hopes of, let down. Chiefly as carted ppl adjective. slang. L19.
verb trans. Cricket. Hit hard. E20.
cartage noun (the cost of) conveyance by cart LME.
carter noun (a) a charioteer; (b) a person who drives a cart (formerly as a type of low birth or boorish manners): ME.
cartful noun as much or as many as a cart will hold LME.