cart

name

1. Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)

noun

1. Acronym of classification and regression tree

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).

1. To carry or convey in a cart.

   “"You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"”

2. To carry goods.

   “I've been carting these things around all day.”

3. To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

   “On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis”

   “Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.”

4. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

   “She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted”