cart

noun

/kɑːt/

/kɑːrt/

Idioms

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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 Dictionary
adjective
- 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
- …
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(also handcart)
a light vehicle with wheels that you pull or push by hand
- a man wheeling an ice-cream cart along
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- golf
- ice-cream
- grocery
- …
verb + cart
- push
- trundle
- wheel
- …
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(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 Dictionary
adjective
- golf
- ice-cream
- grocery
- …
verb + cart
- push
- trundle
- wheel
- …
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(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

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

to put or do things in the wrong order

cart

verb

/kɑːt/

/kɑːrt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they cart	/kɑːt/ /kɑːrt/
he / she / it carts	/kɑːts/ /kɑːrts/
past simple carted	/ˈkɑːtɪd/ /ˈkɑːrtɪd/
past participle carted	/ˈkɑːtɪd/ /ˈkɑːrtɪd/
-ing form carting	/ˈkɑːtɪŋ/ /ˈkɑːrtɪŋ/

Idioms

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cart something (+ adv./prep.) to carry something in a cart or other vehicle
- The rubbish is then carted away for recycling.
cart something + adv./prep. (informal) to carry something that is large or heavy or difficult to carry
- We had to cart our luggage up six flights of stairs.
Extra Examples
- We had to cart our bags up eight flights of stairs.
- They carted the logs back up to the house.
cart somebody + adv./prep. (informal) to take somebody somewhere, especially with difficulty
- The demonstrators were carted off to the local police station.
Extra Examples
- I was unconscious and had to be carted off to a hospital.
- He was yelling and shouting as they carted him away.
- Convicted criminals were carted about the streets.

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

upset the apple cart

to cause problems for somebody or cause their plans, arrangements, etc. to fail