資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cart \Cart\, n. [AS. cr[ae]t; 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. ``Ph[oe]bus' 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.