cart track
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4.8
- noun
:
camino de carretas
- The farmer drove his tractor down the cart track to reach the fields at the bottom of the hill.
Examples
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Behind the farmhouse is a barn and other outbuildings, and behind them, you go down a little hill by a dirt cart track to the fields.
Fiction book (1993) -
Old Stonewall stepped smartly along the cart track between the dunes.
Fiction book (1993) -
We stopped, as I said, and stood together in the cart track.
Fiction book (1993) -
Then he jabbed his stick into the ground and started to walk back up the cart track.
Fiction book (1993) -
North has footprints, but east has bullock cart tracks.
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I went out the front door, around the side of the inn, and across the yard to the barn and the cart track that led down the hill to the fields.
Fiction book (1993) -
At dusk, we found the road to the mill, but we reached there only by walking the last mile along a grooved cart track.
Academic text (1992) -
The children played happily along the cart track that meandered through the trees.
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After walking along the muddy cart track, we finally found the hidden cabin in the woods.
Synonyms
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2.2
A long metal or rubber band with wheels that helps heavy vehicles move over soft ground
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1.0
A way or track that people and things move along for travel
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1.6
A rough path through the countryside for walking or riding
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2.7
A track made by people or animals that is worn down
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7.0
Marks on the ground that animals, people, or vehicles make when they move
A rough road in the countryside for carts
A path for bicycles and other vehicles with wheels
Antonyms
How Rough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cart track comes from a simple picture: the wheels of a cart made a track in the soft ground after passing again and again. When the wheels leave deep marks and a rough path, people called that way a cart track, so it now means 'a rough road or path'.