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CART

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 I. (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"):

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

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

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

Example:

their pushcart was piled high with groceries

Synonyms:

cart; go-cart; handcart; pushcart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Draw slowly or heavily

Example:

haul nets

Synonyms:

cart; drag; hale; haul

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was after such encounters that the dead and wounded were carted back to the towns, and their places filled by men eager for the man-hunt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You would find it difficult, I dare say, just now, in the middle of a very late hay harvest, to hire a horse and cart?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath, was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coaches past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Clerks in the express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My fear was justified when I saw the same cart which had passed before coming down the road, having on it some great wooden boxes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A single man in a dog-cart, so far as I could see.

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