cartage

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English cartage From cart + -age.

1. The transport of goods by cart.

   “Near-synonym: wagonage”

   “Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted”

2. Any vehicular transportation of goods.

   “Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage”

   “I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.”

3. A charge made for such transport.

   “Near-synonym: wagonage”

   “1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.”