cartage, carting
(noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
carting
present participle of cart
carting (plural cartings)
The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
• crating, tracing
Source: Wiktionary
Cart, n. Etym: [AS. cræt; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr. Cf. Car.]
1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart." Shak.
2. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.
3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.
4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads.
– Cart load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load.
– Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope.
– To put (or get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.
Cart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carted; p. pr. & vb. n. Carting.]
1. To carry or convey in a cart.
2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.
Cart, v. i.
Definition: To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 December 2024
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
