1. [n]  a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
2. [n]  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"
3. [v]  transport something in a cart
4. [v]  draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

1. \Cart\, n. [AS. cr[ae]t; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or
   Icel. kartr. Cf. {Car}.]
   1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian
      dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. ``Ph[oe]bus' cart.''
      --Shak.
   2. 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. --Dryden.
   3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen,
      butchers, etc.
   4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
   {Cart horse}, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or
      used for drawing heavy loads.
   {Cart load}, or {Cartload}, as much as will fill or load a
      cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc.,
      one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is
      loosened is estimated to be a cart load.
   {Cart rope}, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any
      strong rope.
   {To} {put (or get or set)} {the cart before the horse}, to
      invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting
      an effect for a cause.
   

2. \Cart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Carting}.]
   1. To carry or convey in a cart.
   2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
            She chuckled when a bawd was carted.  --Prior.
   

3. \Cart\, v. i.
   To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a
   carter.
   

a vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam. 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, _'agalah_ (1 Sam. 6:7, 8), is also rendered "wagon" (Gen. 45:19). It is used also to denote a war-chariot (Ps. 46:9). Carts were used for the removal of the ark and its sacred utensils (Num. 7:3, 6). After retaining the ark amongst them for seven months, the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. On this occasion they set it in a new cart, probably a rude construction, with solid wooden wheels like that still used in Western Asia, which was drawn by two milch cows, which conveyed it straight to Beth-shemesh.

A "cart rope," for the purpose of fastening loads on carts, is used (Isa. 5:18) as a symbol of the power of sinful pleasures or habits over him who indulges them. (See CORD.) In Syria and Palestine wheel-carriages for any other purpose than the conveyance of agricultural produce are almost unknown.