1 a vehicle with two or four wheels that is pulled by a horse and used for carrying loads:
a horse and cart
2 (also handcart) a light vehicle with wheels that you pull or push by hand
3 (AmE) = TROLLEY:
a shopping / baggage cart * a serving cart
4 (AmE) = BUGGY:
a golf cart
IDIOMS
put the cart before the horse to put or do things in the wrong order
verb [VN]
1 [usually +adv./prep.] to carry sth in a cart or other vehicle:
The rubbish is then carted away for recycling.
2 [+adv./prep.] (informal) to carry sth that is large, heavy or awkward in your hands:
We had to cart our luggage up six flights of stairs.
3 [+adv./prep.] (informal) to take sb somewhere, especially with difficulty:
The demonstrators were carted off to the local police station.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cart is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cart a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cart is tagged as noun.
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