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Definition of cart noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cart

noun
 
/kɑːt/
 
/kɑːrt/
Idioms
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  1. a vehicle with two or four wheels that is pulled by a horse and used for carrying loads
    • Milk was delivered by horse and cart in those days.
    see also golf cart
    Extra Examples
    • She brought the vegetables in an ox cart.
    • The cart creaked on up the street.
    • A dusty cart track ran along the valley floor.
    • An ox cart made its way through the village.
    • The only form of transport was a donkey cart.
    • They loaded the cart with their possessions.
    • They piled their furniture onto a cart.
    • Jump in the back of my cart.
    • The bundles were slung onto the back of a cart.
    Topics Transport by car or lorryb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • heavy
    • horse-drawn
    • bullock
    verb + cart
    • drive
    • draw
    • pull
    cart + verb
    • roll
    • clatter
    • creak
    cart + noun
    • driver
    • track
    preposition
    • by cart
    • in a/​the cart
    • on a/​the cart
    phrases
    • the back of a cart
    • a horse and cart
    • a pony and cart
    See full entry
  2. (also handcart)
    a light vehicle with wheels that you pull or push by hand
    • a man wheeling an ice-cream cart along
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • golf
    • ice-cream
    • grocery
    verb + cart
    • push
    • trundle
    • wheel
    See full entry
  3. (North American English)
    (British English trolley)
    a small vehicle with wheels that can be pushed or pulled along and is used for carrying things
    • a baggage cart
    • a serving cart
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • golf
    • ice-cream
    • grocery
    verb + cart
    • push
    • trundle
    • wheel
    See full entry
  4. (also shopping cart)
    (especially North American English)
    (British English basket)
    a facility on a website that records the items that you select to buy
    • Add to cart.
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
  5. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse kartr, probably influenced by Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French carete, diminutive of carre, based on Latin carrum, carrus, of Celtic origin.
Idioms
put the cart before the horse
  1. to put or do things in the wrong order
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