0 present participle of cart
1 to take something or someone somewhere, especially using a lot of effort:
informal The drunks who had been sleeping in the park were carted off (= taken by force) to the police station.
informal I've been carting (= carrying) these letters around with me all week, and I still haven't posted them.
Council workers have carted away all the dead leaves that had collected at the side of the road.
We carted all the rubbish to the bottom of the garden and burned it.
In 1949, water carting had to be carried out extensively.
I know of one farm, at least, which uses horses for carting purposes, especially at harvest time.
Farming can be satisfactorily combined with all sorts of other sources of income—carting herrings and working in forestry.
Do not let the railway companies do any carting or any other terminal services below cost.
Surely those who have been handling bulldozers and carting quicklime to places where the outbreak has taken place should be decontaminated.
That involves suppliers in junior formulas, rally, training cars and carting—suppliers right through the supply chain.
There was punctuality in that regard, but not at certain other times, particularly harvest time, when there was sometimes all-night carting.
Are these villagers still to go on carting water for miles?
