Cart
/kɑːrt/noun
A vehicle with two or four wheels that is pulled by an animal and used for carrying goods.
He loaded the cart with bags of grain to take to the market.
Often appears as...
- horse-drawn cart
- load the cart
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Historic Usage
The term often refers to older times when goods were transported by animal-drawn vehicles.
In the village, they still use a cart to carry hay from the fields.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Motorized
'Cart' implies it doesn't have an engine and must be pulled manually or by an animal.
Farmers once used oxen to pull the cart along rough roads.
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barrowbuggycarrierconveyancedraytrolleytruckwagon
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