CART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cart mean? 

• CART (noun)
  The noun CART has 2 senses:

1. a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal

2. wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

  Familiarity information: CART used as a noun is rare.

• CART (verb)
  The verb CART has 2 senses:

1. draw slowly or heavily

2. transport something in a cart

  Familiarity information: CART used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cart" is a kind of...):

waggon; wagon (any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor)

Meronyms (parts of "cart"):

cartwheel (a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim)

axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cart"):

dogcart (a cart drawn by a dog)

dumpcart (a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling)

horse-cart; horse cart (heavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work)

jaunting car; jaunty car (an open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland)

jinrikisha; ricksha; rickshaw (a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person)

oxcart (a cart that is drawn by an ox)

donkey cart; pony cart; ponycart; tub-cart (a cart with an underslung axle and two seats)

water cart (cart with a tank for water (especially with fresh water for sale))

Derivation:

cart (transport something in a cart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cart; go-cart; handcart; pushcart

Context example:

their pushcart was piled high with groceries

Hypernyms ("cart" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Meronyms (parts of "cart"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cart"):

applecart (a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street)

barrow; garden cart; lawn cart; wheelbarrow (a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels)

hand truck; truck (a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects)

laundry cart (handcart for moving a load of laundry)

serving cart (a handcart for serving food)

shopping cart (a handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping)

Derivation:

cart (transport something in a cart)

• CART (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cart    ... he / she / it carts   
Past simple: carted   
Past participle: carted   
-ing form: carting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw slowly or heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cart; drag; hale; haul

Context example:

haul nets

Hypernyms (to "cart" is one way to...):

draw; pull (cause to move by pulling)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cart"):

bouse; bowse (haul with a tackle)

underrun (haul onto a boat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transport something in a cart

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cart" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cart (a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal)

cart (wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels)

cartage (the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it)

carter (someone whose work is driving carts)

 Context examples 

Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant's cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At last he looked round, and saw that the cart was dripping, and the cask quite empty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dapper little man, with a quick, alert manner and a waxed moustache, had just descended from a high dog-cart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He met me with the dog-cart at the station, and I saw at a glance that the last two months had been very trying ones for him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I think it was over Alice's cart," she said. "He couldn't see it in the dark."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There seemed to be no horses nor animals of any kind; the men carried things around in little green carts, which they pushed before them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

For then you know, Peggotty, you would always have the horse and cart to bring you over to see me, and could come for nothing, and be sure of coming.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Took the wheel off a butcher’s cart at the corner of the High Street, and was out o’ sight before the butcher’s boy could see what had hurt him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was shaving at my window in the morning when I heard the rattle of hoofs and, looking up, saw a dog-cart coming at a gallop down the road.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)