Word Finder - carts

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

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The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

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

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A shopping cart.

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To carry goods.

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I've been carting these things around all day.

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To carry or convey in a cart.

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To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

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To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

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

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A cartridge for a video game system.

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

In the yard stood the carts ready corded.

The shed may have a single pair of rails for wagons running through it along one side of a raised platform, there being a roadway for carts on the other side; or if more accommodation is required there may be two tracks, one on each side of the platform, which is then approached by carts at the end.

In Russia, until 1875, the crude oil was carried in barrels on Persian carts known as " arbas."

They are all more or less practicable for carts, and are flanked by a good telegraph line as long as they lie in Italian territory.

In the same way the villagers had to go through the work of harrowing with their harrows, and of removing the harvest in their vans and carts.

Carriage duties in carts and on horseback were also apportioned according to the time they took as a part of the week-work.

There are few metalled roads, and those that exist are in bad repair, but on the plateau light carts can pass nearly everywhere.

It was among the towns that had the right of coinage, and it manufactured carts, baskets, &c. Cicero speaks of it as a place of some importance.

At a small roadside station, where the traffic is of a purely local character, there will be some sidings to which horses and carts have access for handling bulk goods like coal, gravel,.

The indigo plant is grown in large quantities in the plain country to the north of Mukden, and is transported thence to the coast in carts, each of which carries rather more than a ton weight of the dye.

The peculiar two-wheeled carts of the country, carrying enormous loads of 4 to 6 tons, destroy even the finest road.

Similar carts, slightly lighter, used in the cities, quickly destroy any paving but stone block.

In outlying districts post carts and ox wagons are the usual means of conveyance.

The so-called rivers of the delta, the Ngawun, Pyamalaw, Panmawaddy, Pyinzalu and Pantanaw, are simply the larger mouths of the Irrawaddy, and the whole country towards the sea is a close network of creeks where there are few or no roads and boats take the place of carts for every purpose.

The roots are brought from the fields by carts, canals and railways.

The vehicles chiefly employed in ante-Meiji days were ox-carriages, norimono, kago and carts drawn by hand.

There are well-kept high-roads connecting all the towns,and a government service of mail carts to places not on the railway.

Their life is still in many respects very primitive; their houses are generally built of logs, their clothes are often of homespun, Indian corn and ham form a large part of their diet, and their means of transportation are the saddle-horse and sleds and wheeled carts drawn by oxen or mules.

Guicciardini, the Venetian envoy, describes the activity of the port, into which 500 ships sometimes passed in a day, and as evidence of the extent of its land trade he mentioned that 2000 carts entered the city each week.

During nine days wood was collected and brought, in carts drawn by oxen, to the site of the funeral pyre.

When the grapes have attained to maturity they are collected by hand and then transferred in baskets or carts to the press house.

As freighters for the Hudson's Bay Company many of these settlers made, with their ox or pony carts, the long journey over the natural prairie roads to Fort Garry, fording or swimming the streams, carrying furs for a thousand miles or more on the eastern trip, and returning brought loads of merchandise for the company.

For a long time no carts or carriages were permitted to enter the city for fear of polluting and injuring the pavement, and the transport of goods was carried on in hand-carts.

The postal service is well organized, and to places beyond the reach of the railway there is a service of mail carts, and in parts of Gordonia (Bechuanaland) camels are used to carry the mails.

The cumbrous wooden carts which afford the sole means of transport in many districts are generally drawn by oxen, although buffaloes may be seen in the south.

On these roads large use is made of bullock wagons, as well as carts drawn by men, and women also.

They knit garments from the wool of their sheep; are good carpenters and make serviceable carts.

Either way Charles Dunstone, CEO and founder of the group, is once again going to upset quite to a few apple carts.

A full range of accessories is available from roll storage carts to roll bags and straps, floor tapes and ballet barres.

The earliest railways employed teams of horses to draw carts over the track.

Having reached the bank on the Ganges, he would halt at the place allocated for parking and tying up one-horse carts.

The chariots are small two-wheeled carts, which are pulled by two to four horses at great speed around the track.

Teaching & Projects Abroad is based in the bustling city of Kathmandu full of jostling crowds, rickety bullock carts and noisy auto-rickshaws.

The large doorway at the front of the building enabled fully laden carts to enter.

We see still families in bullock carts on the roads moving to places of safety.

But in the main, the donkey carts are gone.

In many parts of the world ox carts can exist alongside designer trainers, washing ells beside mobile phones.

Sorry, there are no rental cars in San Pedro - only rental golf carts which are ideal on the sandy streets.

A small army of laborers with horse-drawn carts built a dam, which extended 175 feet into the solid rock.

Online sales of chewing gum removal carts, steam cleaners, pressure washers, floor scrubber driers, sweepers, generators.

He was a Scottish professional golfer in the 19th century but he predicted bullet trains, driverless golf carts, televisions and digital watches.

We can also offer wooden Victorian style hand carts from which are sold freshly spun candy floss and just cooked sweet caramel popcorn.

Pit with him highest to lowest amp preventive medicine come from carts.

The resort is car free and public transport takes the form of horse drawn sleighs and electric carts.

Everyone else had to use standpipes or the town's water carts.

Roads were often very poor and transporting goods by horse-drawn wagons and carts was slow and expensive.

The wood is very white, and, from its soft and even grain, is employed by turners and toy-makers, while, being tough and little liable to split, it is also serviceable for the construction of packing cases, the lining of carts and waggons, and many similar purposes; when thoroughly seasoned it makes good flooring planks, but shrinks much in drying, weighing about 58 lb per cubic foot when green, but only 331 lb when dry.

They were first given boiled, but afterwards the swine came to eat them raw, and would run after the carts, and pull them forth as they gathered them - an expression which conveys an idea of their being cultivated in the fields.

It was carried off in carts to open spaces, where an exposure of some weeks to the air was found to pulverize the hard rock far more efficiently than the old method of crushing with mallets.

The two towns are united by a good road, along which a large traffic is maintained partly by coolie porters but more frequently by means of wheel-barrows, which serve the purpose of cabs and carts.