From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcartcart1 /kɑːt $ kɑːrt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1 TTBa vehicle with no roof that is pulled by a horse and used for carrying heavy things → handcart2 American EnglishTTD a large wire basket on wheels that you use in a supermarket SYN trolley British English3 the place on an Internet shopping website where you put things that you wish to buy4 American EnglishDHF a small table with wheels, used for moving and serving food and drinks SYN trolley British English5 → put the cart before the horse → upset the apple cart at upset2(5)
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cart• A cart drove very loudly into the yard below.• Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food.• Then the waiter wheeled the dessert cart over to our table.• Petrol is nearly nonexistent too: deliveries are made in dray carts.• As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.• Some one almost crashed into her cart.• A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.• McMenamy stacked the bags on the cart.• The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance.cartcart2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] 1 CARRYto take something somewhere in a cart, truck etccart something away Household waste is carted away by the city’s Sanitation Department.2 informalCARRY to carry something somewhere, especially something that is heavy or difficult to carry We carted all the furniture upstairs. → cart somebody off/away→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
cart• A burglar carted away all the family's Christmas presents.• Why would they cart away bones?• Household and public rubbish is carted away by the city's relatively efficient Sanitation Department.• The boats came in and were unloaded; and the fish was carted away.• Others had walked a mile to a well and were carting back three large brass pots stacked on their heads.• Madge picked up the box and carted it out to the back yard.• After carting my equipment around the world, it's nice to be working closer to home.• I had to be carted off to hospital, so I didn't manage to complete the work until the new year.• I had to cart water for her.• I'm not going to cart your shopping around all afternoon.cart something away• Workers carted away several tons of trash.Origin cart1 (1100-1200) Old Norse kartr 