plural carts
1
: a heavy usually horse-drawn 2-wheeled vehicle used for farming or transporting freight
2
: a lightweight 2-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse, pony, or dog
3
a
: a small wheeled vehicle see golf cart, grocery cart, shopping cart sense 1
b
: a table with wheels that is used especially for serving food
I make conversation after asking to look at the menu: That apple tart on the dessert cart—who made it, and what's in the crust?—
Corby Kummer
Corby Kummer4
: a temporary record of items selected for purchase from an online vendor : shopping cart sense 2
You head back to your favorite Web shopping site, and the stuff you crammed in your cart last time is still there, waiting for you to buy it or dump it.—Neil Randall
Neil Randall
carted; carting; carts
1
: to carry or convey in or as if in a cart
… buses to cart the kids to and from school.—L. S. Gannett
L. S. Gannett2
: to take or drag away without ceremony or by force
—usually used with off
they carted him off to jail
carter
noun
Examples of cart in a Sentence
Noun
a cart piled up with hay
Verb
We carted some dirt to the garden.
I carted all the books home.
He carted the bags away.
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Amber Cardullo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2025
Hill had to be helped off the field, leading to a medical cart coming out to take him to the locker room, where he could be attended to.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 23 Nov. 2025
Higgins appeared to get knocked out on the play and was carted to the locker room with a concussion.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Everything is 40 to 70 percent off—all the more reason to add two of everything to my cart.
—Amber Cardullo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2025
Hill had to be helped off the field, leading to a medical cart coming out to take him to the locker room, where he could be attended to.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Verb
On Sunday, a troop of Boy Scouts helped cart mandarins to festival-goers who had purchased bags of sweet fruit.
—Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 23 Nov. 2025
Higgins appeared to get knocked out on the play and was carted to the locker room with a concussion.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cart. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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cart
1 of 2 noun1
: a heavy two-wheeled wagon usually pulled by a horse
2
: a light usually two-wheeled vehicle
pony cart
cart
2 of 2 verb
: to carry in or as if in a cart
carter
noun
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