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Cart and Wain Definitions

Cart

A small wheeled vehicle typically pushed by hand
A shopping cart.
A pastry cart.

Wain

The Big Dipper.

Cart

A two-wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal and used in farm work and for transporting goods.

Wain

A large open farm wagon.

Cart

The quantity that a cart can hold.
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Wain

A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
"The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

Cart

An open two-wheeled carriage.

Wain

To carry.

Cart

A light motorized vehicle
A golf cart.

Wain

A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.
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Cart

To convey in a cart or truck
Cart away garbage.

Wain

A chariot.

Cart

To convey laboriously or unceremoniously; lug
Carted the whole gang off to jail.

Wain

English writer (1925-1994)

Cart

A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

Wain

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Cart

A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

Wain

Large open farm wagon

Cart

(Internet) A shopping cart.

Cart

A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.

Cart

A cartridge for a video game system.
My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

Cart

(transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.

Cart

To carry goods.
I've been carting these things around all day.

Cart

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

Cart

To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Cart

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

Cart

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.

Cart

A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.

Cart

An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.

Cart

To carry or convey in a cart.

Cart

To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
She chuckled when a bawd was carted.

Cart

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

Cart

A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal

Cart

Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels;
He used a handcart to carry the rocks away
Their pushcart was piled high with groceries

Cart

Draw slowly or heavily;
Haul stones
Haul nets

Cart

Transport something in a cart

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