cart Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
  2. noun wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
    handcart; go-cart; pushcart.
    • he used a handcart to carry the rocks away
    • their pushcart was piled high with groceries
  3. verb draw slowly or heavily
    haul; hale; drag.
    • haul stones
    • haul nets
  4. verb transport something in a cart

WordNet

Cart noun
Etymology
AS. cræt; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr. Cf. Car.
Definitions
  1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart." Shak.
  2. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
    Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.
  3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.
  4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
Cart transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Carted; present participle & verbal noun Carting
Definitions
  1. To carry or convey in a cart.
  2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
    She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.
Cart intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

Webster 1913