cart
pronunciation
How to pronounce cart in British English:
UK [kɑːt]
How to pronounce cart in American English:
US [kɑːrt]
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- Noun:
- a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
- wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
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- Verb:
- draw slowly or heavily
- transport something in a cart
Word Origin
- cart
- cart: [13] Old English had a word cræt ‘carriage’, which may, by the process known as metathesis (reversal of speech sounds), have produced the word which first appeared at the beginning of the 13th century as karte or carte. But a part must certainly also have been played by Old Norse kartr ‘cart’, and some have also detected the influence of Anglo-Norman carete, a diminutive form of car (source of English car).=> car
- cart (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old Norse kartr or a similar Scandinavian source, akin to and replacing Old English cræt "cart, wagon, chariot," perhaps originally "body of a cart made of wickerwork, hamper" and related to Middle Dutch cratte "woven mat, hamper," Dutch krat "basket," Old English cradol (see cradle (n.)). To put the cart before the horse in a figurative sense is from 1510s in those words; the image in other words dates to mid-14c.
- cart (v.)
- "to carry in a cart," late 14c., from cart (n.). Related: Carted; carting.
Example
- 1. Bucharest , romania : a horse-drawn cart passes a sunflower field
- 2. They confiscated his cart and insulted him as a crowd watched .
- 3. Mumbai , india : a worker sleeps on a hand cart at a wholesale poultry market .
- 4. 2 / 13 Nanjing , china : a man pulls a cart loaded with recyclable materials amid heavy rain
- 5. Night also has voice , rumble and clang . It maybe more resonating caused by the silent night , maybethe cart break down the wall of silent .