Cart

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ka:t/
• US IPA: /kaɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t

Probably from Old English cræt, from Old Norse kartr

Etymology in Merriam-Webster's dictionay

, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- ("to turn, wind").

Full definition of cart

Noun

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
   The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 5, We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

Derived terms

• cartwheel
• dogcart
• go-cart
• golf cart
• luggage cart
• oxcart
• pushcart
• put the cart before the horse
• shopping cart

Verb

1. (transitive) To carry goods.I've been carting these things around all day.
2. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
• PriorShe chuckled when a bawd was carted.

Shortened from cartridge.

Noun

1. (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

Anagrams

• C-rat
• RACT