CART

An open box, placed upon two or more wheels, and constructed with shafts, so as to admit of being drawn by one or more horses. In agriculture, carts are used for carting or carrying from one point to another soils,jnanures, and produce. For this purpose there are the close cart, single or double, that is, for one or for two horses; the corn cart, single or double, constructed of open work, and used for carrying hay, and for conveying corn in the sheaf from the field to the rickyard, .; and the stone or quarry cart, consisting of a strong bottom and low wheels, for conveying large stones. Besides these, there are the three-wheeled cart, with low wheels, for carting soil, stones, ., to a short distance; the timber cart, which is nothing more than two pairs of wheels and axles joined by a pole, and used for conveying large trunks of trees from the place where they have been felled to the place where they are to be manufactured; and the box cart, or cart with close bottom and sides, which is used for conveying soils, manure, and small articles, commonly constructed so as to admit of* discharging the load by elevating one end of the box and lowering the other; and to carts having this contrivance the term coup cart is applied in Scotland, and till cart in England. [s. 210]