to cart
- verb
- /kɑrt/
- Gandy's father quarried and carted rock and built a mansion on that hill.
- cart away
OK, actually maybe inside out tracking makes armor way more portable than other flagship VR systems since there's no satellites to cart around.
- OK, actually maybe inside out tracking makes armor way more portable than other flagship VR systems since there's no satellites to cart around.
- I mean some of those who were carted off the slaves who were sold by West African kings to European traders and taken off to the to the Caribbean.
- Just just social psychopath hit the bell when I'm carted off and that all that like on the record.
Examples
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But is she strong enough to cart heavy containers all the way to the deadfall?
Fiction book (1999) -
You think just because you didn't shoot her, you can cart her off?
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Do they usually cart the sets and the props from one country to another and back again?
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Meanwhile, my mother, a teacher, was forever carting books home from the public library for me to read.
Academic text (2004) -
Sports fans have seen them carting injured football players off the field.
Academic text (2001) -
I handled the bookshelves and books, carted them down to the basement.
Fiction book (2000) -
With a screaming siren, the ambulance arrived and carted Marla off to a Denver hospital.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now grass grows in the halls where kings once feasted, and peasants cart away the mighty walls, stone by stone, to make shelters for their pigs.
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They used a truck to cart supplies to the remote village after the storm.
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After the performance, the crew had to cart all the equipment back to the storage room.
Synonyms
Hold and move something from one place to another
To pull something along the ground with effort or force someone into a place unwillingly
To move people or goods from one place to another, often by vehicle
To pull something with effort, often slowly
To push something on its round turning parts or to ride in a vehicle that has them
To carry something heavy or awkward
To carry or drag something heavy with effort
To carry something heavy or awkward with effort
To move something by dragging it with effort
To take something away in a vehicle, often because it is large or unwanted
To move something by pushing it on a small cart with one wheel
To move slowly and awkwardly while carrying something heavy
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To take someone or something away by vehicle, often quickly and without care
- Informal
To take something away in a vehicle, often because it is large or unwanted
Compounds
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb cart comes from the noun for a wheeled vehicle used to move goods. So to cart something is to 'carry' or move it, often with effort, like loading it into a cart.