cart

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   The farmer loaded the sacks onto a cart.

2. 2
   noun

   wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person

   The farmer loaded the sacks onto a cart.

3. 3
   verb

   to transport something in a cart

   I carted the groceries around.

4. 4
   verb

   to draw slowly or heavily

   The farmer loaded the sacks onto a cart.

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Simplified etymology

Cart comes from Old Norse kartr and is related to car. It originally denoted a carriage of any kind, including a chariot, before narrowing to the simpler vehicle familiar today.

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).

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