cart

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cart/kɑːt/

▶noun

• 1 a horse-drawn open vehicle with two or four wheels, used for carrying loads.

  ■ a light two-wheeled open vehicle for driving in, pulled by a single horse.

• 2 a shallow open container on wheels, pulled or pushed by hand.

  ■ N. Amer. a supermarket trolley.

▶verb

• 1 convey or put in a cart or similar vehicle.

• 2 informal carry (a heavy or cumbersome object) somewhere with difficulty.

  ■ convey or propel unceremoniously.

– phrases
in the cart Brit. informal in trouble or difficulty.
put the cart before the horse reverse the proper order or procedure.

– derivatives
carter noun,
cartful noun (pl. cartfuls),
cartload noun.

– origin ME: from ON kartr, prob. influenced by Anglo-Norman Fr. and Old North. Fr. carete, dimin. of carre (see car).