• Carting

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/

    Origin

    From cart + -ing.

    Verb

    carting
    1. Present participle of cart

    Full definition of carting

    Noun

    carting

    (plural cartings)
    1. The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
      • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 15:When Rowland Hill, Lord Mayor in 1550, instigated the carting of notable citizens for unchastity, several of them ‘told him that it was not right to be so severe …’.
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