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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CART, n.
1. A carriage with two wheels, fitted to be drawn by one horse, or by a yoke of oxen, and used in husbandry or commercial cities for carrying heavy commodities. In Great Britain, carts are usually drawn by horses. In America, horse-carts are used mostly in cities, and ox-carts in the country.
2. A carriage in general.
CART, v.t.
1. To carry or convey on a cart; as, to cart hay.
2. To expose in a cart, by way of punishment.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
2: wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries" [syn: handcart, pushcart, cart, go-cart] v
1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: haul, hale, cart, drag]
2: transport something in a cart

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, probably from Old Norse kartr; akin to Old English cræt cart Date: 13th century 1. a heavy usually horse-drawn 2-wheeled vehicle used for farming or transporting freight 2. a lightweight 2-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse, pony, or dog 3. a small wheeled vehicle II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to carry or convey in or as if in a cart <buses to cart the kids to and from school — L. S. Gannett> 2. to take or drag away without ceremony or by force — usually used with off <they carted him off to jail> • carter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a strong vehicle with two or four wheels for carrying loads, usu. drawn by a horse. 2 a light vehicle for pulling by hand. 3 a light vehicle with two wheels for driving in, drawn by a single horse. --v.tr. 1 convey in or as in a cart. 2 sl. carry (esp. a cumbersome thing) with difficulty or over a long distance (carted it all the way home). Phrases and idioms: cart-horse a thickset horse suitable for heavy work. cart-load 1 an amount filling a cart. 2 a large quantity of anything. cart off remove, esp. by force. cart-track (or -road) a track or road too rough for ordinary vehicles. cart-wright a maker of carts. in the cart sl. in trouble or difficulty. put the cart before the horse 1 reverse the proper order or procedure. 2 take an effect for a cause. Derivatives: carter n. cartful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: ME f. ON kartr cart & OE cræt, prob. infl. by AF & ONF carete dimin. of carre CAR

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dump Dump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] --Bartlett. Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cart Cart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carted; p. pr. & vb. n. Carting.] 1. To carry or convey in a cart. 2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. --Prior.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cart Cart, v. i. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cart Cart, n. [AS. cr[ae]t; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr. Cf. Car.] 1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. ``Ph[oe]bus' cart.'' --Shak. 2. 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. 3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc. 4. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hose Hose (h[=o]z), n.; pl. Hose, formerly Hosen (h[=o]"z'n). [AS. hose; akin to D. hoos, G. hose breeches, OHG. hosa, Icel. hosa stocking, gather, Dan. hose stocking; cf. Russ. koshulia a fur jacket.] 1. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. --Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. --Shak. 2. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings. 3. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. Hose carriage, cart, or truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] Hose coupling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. Hose wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(carts, carting, carted) 1. A cart is an old-fashioned wooden vehicle that is used for transporting goods or people. Some carts are pulled by animals. ...a country where horse-drawn carts far outnumber cars. = wagon N-COUNT 2. If you cart things or people somewhere, you carry them or transport them there, often with difficulty. (INFORMAL) After both their parents died, one of their father's relatives carted off the entire contents of the house... VERB: V n with adv 3. A cart is a small vehicle with a motor. (AM) He drove up in a golf cart to watch them. N-COUNT 4. A cart or a shopping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop. (AM; in BRIT, use trolley) N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam. 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, _'agalah_ (1 Sam. 6:7, 8), is also rendered "wagon" (Gen. 45:19). It is used also to denote a war-chariot (Ps. 46:9). Carts were used for the removal of the ark and its sacred utensils (Num. 7:3, 6). After retaining the ark amongst them for seven months, the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. On this occasion they set it in a new cart, probably a rude construction, with solid wooden wheels like that still used in Western Asia, which was drawn by two milch cows, which conveyed it straight to Beth-shemesh.

A "cart rope," for the purpose of fastening loads on carts, is used (Isa. 5:18) as a symbol of the power of sinful pleasures or habits over him who indulges them. (See CORD.) In Syria and Palestine wheel-carriages for any other purpose than the conveyance of agricultural produce are almost unknown.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kart (`aghalah): The Hebrew word has been translated in some passages "cart," and in others "wagon." In one verse only has it been translated "chariot." The context of the various passages indicates that a distinction was made between vehicles which were used for carrying baggage or produce and those used for carrying riders (chariots), although in their primitive form of construction they were much the same (compare English "cart" and "carriage").

Carts, like "chariots" (which see), were of Assyrian origin. They were early carried to Egypt where the flat nature of the country readily led to their adoption. From Egypt they gradually found their way among the people of the Palestinian plains. In the hills of Judea and Central Palestine, except where highways were built (1Sa 6:12), the nature of the country prevented the use of wheeled vehicles. 1Sa 6:7,8,10,11,14 show that the people of the plains used carts. The men of Kiriath-jearim found it easier to carry the ark (1Sa 7:1). Their attempt to use a cart later (2Sa 6:3,1; 1Ch 13:7) proved disastrous and they abandoned it for a safer way (2Sa 6:13).

That carts were used at a very early date is indicated by Nu 7:3,7,8. That these vehicles were not the common mode of conveyance in Palestine is shown in Ge 45. Pharaoh commanded that Joseph's brethren should return to their father with their beasts of burden (Gen 45:21) and take with them Egyptian wagons (Gen 45:19,21; 46:6) for bringing back their father and their families. The very unusual sight of the wagons was proof to Jacob of Joseph's existence (Gen 45:27).

Bible descriptions and ancient Babylonian and Egyptian pictures indicate that the cart was usually two-wheeled and drawn by two oxen.

With the Arabian conquests and subsequent ruin of the roads wheeled vehicles disappeared from Syria and Palestine. History is again repeating itself. The Circassians, whom the Turkish government has settled near Caesarea, Jerash (Gerasa) and Amman (Philadelphia), have introduced a crude cart which must be similar to that used in Old Testament times. The two wheels are of solid wood. A straight shaft is joined to the wooden axle, and to this a yoke of oxen is attached. On the Philistian plains may be seen carts of present-day Egyptian origin but of a pattern many centuries old. With the establishment of government roads during the last 50 years, European vehicles of all descriptions are fast coming into the country.

One figurative reference is made to the cart (Isa 5:18), but its meaning is obscure.

James A. Patch

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To put the cart before the horse; to mention the last part of a story first. To be flogged at the cart's a-se or tail; persons guilty of petty larceny are frequently sentenced to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the common executioner, for a certain distance: the degree of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the executioner, who, it is said, has cats of nine tails of all prices.

Foolish Dictionary

v. t., To take off.

Moby Thesaurus

barge, barrow, boat, bring, bus, carry, coach, convey, coup-cart, dogcart, drag, dray, dumpcart, ferry, float, handcart, haul, horsecart, jinrikisha, lighter, lug, move, oxcart, ponycart, pushcart, raft, ricksha, schlep, ship, sled, sledge, tote, transport, trolley, truck, two-wheeler, van, wagon, wheelbarrow