3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.
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.
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.
CART
Cart, v. i.
Defn: To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
CARTAGE
Cart"age, n.
1. The act of carrying in a cart.
2. The price paid for carting.