cart
/kɑɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.98 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!""
- "I've been carting these things around all day."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cart, kartr, *krattaz, *gret-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɑɹt/
- British English: /kɑːt/