“cart” – English explanatory dictionary

noun a vehicle pulled by a horse ○ A horse-drawn cart piled high with furniture. □ to put the cart before the horse to deal with things the wrong way round ■ verb to carry a bulky or heavy thing (informal.) ○ Why do we have to cart this folding bed around with us? ○ The police came and carted him off to jail.

n. [AS. craet; 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. ´Phœbus’ 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, etc.
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.

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.”

v. i. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.