Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
cart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it
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Examples
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This mainly consisted of barrowing as I call carting things off in a wheelbarrow stuff over to the compost pile and raking up some more dead grass in the field.
Archive 2006-11-01 Adam Horowitz 2006
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This mainly consisted of barrowing as I call carting things off in a wheelbarrow stuff over to the compost pile and raking up some more dead grass in the field.
In case you're interested... Adam Horowitz 2006
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Tomorrow Fredericks wagons would arrive and begin carting it away.
Animal Farm 1945
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He sounded as if he relished the idea of carting her about like a sack.
Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004
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He sounded as if he relished the idea of carting her about like a sack.
Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004
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He sounded as if he relished the idea of carting her about like a sack.
Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004
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The practice known as 'carting' is illegal and the hunting community has long maintained that it doesn't exist.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Graydon, Alexander, his account of the "carting" of Isaac Hunt, 105;
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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There are some operations, such as carting and spreading dung, and all work with the fork, spade, or shovel, at which his Irishmen will do, he thinks, over
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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And the feeling inside the Governors Ball that night was that the show's new pieces of flair -- "innovations" such as carting out former acting winners to hand out awkward praise to nominees they likely didn't care much about -- merely added a lighter shade of rouge to the aging starlet.
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