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cart definition

cart (kärt)

noun

  1. any of various small, strong, two-wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse, ox, pony, etc.
  2. a light, uncovered wagon or carriage
  3. a small, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by hand

Etymology: ME < ON kartr (akin to OE cræt; orig., body of a cart made of wickerwork, hamper): for IE base see cradle

transitive verb

  1. to carry or deliver in or as in a cart, truck, etc.; transport
  2. to remove (someone or something) forcefully she was carted off to jail

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cart Idioms

put the cart before the horse

to deal with matters in reverse order, as because of illogical reasoning

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cart Synonyms

cart

n.

truck, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, barrow, little wagon, wagon, carriage, tip cart, handcart, dolly, hand truck, tumbrel, gig, dray, two-wheeler, pushcart, gocart, gurney, shopping cart, dumpcart, dogcart; see also carriage 2, vehicle 1, wagon.

put the cart before the horse*

reverse, be illogical, err, turn things around; see mistake.


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cart Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • motorise: If you can't walk - hire a motorized cart.

Preposition: before

  • horse: But there is a serious danger of putting the cart before the horse.

Adjective modifier

  • one-horse: Having reached the bank on the Ganges, he would halt at the place allocated for parking and tying up one-horse carts.

Modifies a noun

  • rut: The scale of activity is indicated by the presence of cart ruts leading into the excavated rubbish pits.

Noun used with modifier

  • shopping: Can I install a shopping cart with our hosting package?
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cart quotes

My old man said,'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked behind with my old cock linnet. But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam. You can't trust the'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

-Collins, Charles

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

-Lear, Edward

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

-Lee, Laurie

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