cart

noun

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

   “The grocer delivered his goods by cart.”

   “We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.”

2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet)A shopping cart.
4. (informal)A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
5. (informal)A cartridge for a computer or video game system.

   “My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.”

6. (informal, slang)A cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens.

   “Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart?”

   “Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."”

   “Vapes are a relatively new innovation, and at this point, the process of feeding cannabis oil to a heat source creates a few challenges for devices like disposable carts to overcome.”

7. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of classification and regression tree

verb

1. (transitive)To carry or convey in a cart.

   “"You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"”

2. (informal, transitive)To carry goods.

   “I've been carting these things around all day.”

3. (transitive)To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

   “On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis”

   “Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.”

   “Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

   “She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted”

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)
2. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
3. (countable, uncountable)A short river, the River Cart in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, formed from its tributaries Black Cart Water and White Cart Water.