recartv.
/ˌriːˈkɑːt/, U.S. /riˈkɑrt/ transitive. To cart (a person or thing) off or back again.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > cart or wagon [verb (transitive)]
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1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex xii. 295 Carting the parings off the land into heaps, there to remain until the mass be reduced to mould; when these heaps are to be re-carted, and spread on the land from which they came.
1820 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 291/1 No sooner have the poor wretches become a little familiarised to their new parish, than the order is appealed against, and they are re~carted with the same precipitate indecency.
1861 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (new ed.) xiii. 114 Before a common coffin-nail can be made..ores..must be smelted..by coals which have been excavated, raised, carted, recarted, &c.
1934 F. M. Ford It was Nightingale iii. iii. 362 They..had to be re-carted from the office.
1967 R. E. Bevan Notes on Sci. & Pract. Controlled Tipping of Refuse viii. 75 As tipping proceeded the surface was covered with either screened dust..or decomposed refuse recarted from the Clayton Vale controlled tip.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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