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Cart

noun

A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.

Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels. Synonyms: go-cart, handcart, pushcart. "Their pushcart was piled high with groceries"

verb

(past & past part. carted; pres. part. carting)

Draw slowly or heavily. Synonyms: drag, hale, haul. "Haul nets"

Transport something in a cart.

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"Cart" Quotes from Famous Books

... settlement about the latter end of June, to the number of from 1,200 to 1,500 souls; each hunter possesses at least six carts, and some twelve; the whole number may amount to 5,000 carts. Besides his riding nag and cart horses, he has also at least one buffalo runner, which he never mounts until he is about to charge the buffalo. The "runner" is tended with all the care which the cavalier of old bestowed on his ...

— Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory - Volume II. (of 2) • John M'lean

... noon. Trying to simplify his life in every way, he did not telegraph, but hired a cart and pair at the station. The driver was a young fellow in a nankeen coat, with a belt below his long waist. He was glad to talk to the gentleman, especially because while they were talking his broken-winded white horse and the emaciated spavined one could go ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... that great wealth is not desirable, Lycurgus said that the Spartans should use only iron money. All the Spartan coins were therefore bars of iron, so heavy that a yoke of oxen and a strong cart were needed to carry a sum equal to one hundred dollars from one spot to another. Money was so bulky that it could neither be hidden nor stolen; and no one cared to make a fortune, since it required a large space to stow away ...

— The Story of the Greeks • H. A. Guerber

... There were tears in his eyes and a ringing in his head. Fool! To play this kind of game against that kind of woman! Fool, fool! He had written the end himself. It was all over. He went to his room, got together his things, found a cart, ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... was Greek to Gilbert, downright Greek: He knew not what to think, nor how to speak. The case was this; that Nathan with a cart To fetch them both at day-break was ...

— Wild Flowers - Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry • Robert Bloomfield

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