cart (kart)

[ What the sonnes sonne That highte Phetoun [Phaethon] wolde lede Algate his fader carte . Chaucer, House of Fame, ii. 433. 2. A two-wheeled vehicle, shorter and higher set than a car, usually for one horse and often without springs, for the conveyance of heavy goods. Provide some carts , And bring away the armour that is there. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 2. Packing all his goods in one poor cart . Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 3. A cart-load. A cart of coals was formerly in England 84 hundredweight by statute. To put (or set) the cart before the horse, to reverse the proper order of (two) things. Nowe, hitherto the chiefe care of govern a unce hath bin to the land, being the meaneste; and to the bodie, being the better, very small; but to the mynde, being the best, none at all, which methinkes is playnely to sett the carte before the horse. Quoted in Forewords to Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. xxiii. Village cart, an uncovered two-wheeled carriage for one horse, with a low body and but one seat. - White chapel cart, a light two-wheeled spring-cart, such as is used by butchers, etc., for delivering goods to their customers: so named from being a style of vehicle originally much used about White chapel in London. Often called chapel - cart. cart (kärt), v. [ Thespis was first, who, all besmear'd with lee, Began this pleasure for posterity: And with his carted actors, and a song, Amus'd the people as he pa 'd along. Dryden, Art of Poetry, iii. 495. 2t. To expose in a cart, by way of punishment. Thou shalt therefore bee taken out of thy proude Char iot, and bee carted. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 29. She chuckled when a bawd was carted, Pope . II. in trans. To use carts for carriage. Oxen are not so good for draught where you have oсса sion to cart much, but for winter ploughing. Mortimer, Husbandry. cart a ceo us, a. See chartaceous . cartage (kär'tāj), n. [ cart + -age.] 1. The act of carrying in a cart.-2. The price paid for carting.