King James Bible Dictionary

A vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Samuel 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, 'agalah (1 Samuel 6:7, 8), is also rendered "wagon" (Genesis 45:19). It is used also to denote a war-chariot (Psalms 46:9). Carts were used for the removal of the ark and its sacred utensils (Numbers 7:3, 6). After retaining the ark amongst them for seven months, the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. On this occasion they set it in a new cart, probably a rude construction, with solid wooden wheels like that still used in Western Asia, which was drawn by two milch cows, which conveyed it straight to Beth-shemesh.

A "cart rope," for the purpose of fastening loads on carts, is used (Isaiah 5:18) as a symbol of the power of sinful pleasures or habits over him who indulges them. (See CORD.) In Syria and Palestine wheel-carriages for any other purpose than the conveyance of agricultural produce are almost unknown.

General references
1 Samuel 6:7-14; 2 Samuel 6:3; Isaiah 28:27-28
Wagon

(Genesis 45:19,27; Numbers 7:3,7,8) a vehicle drawn by cattle, (2 Samuel 6:6) to be distinguished from the chariot drawn by horses. Carts and wagons were either open or covered, (Numbers 7:3) and were used for conveyance of person, (Genesis 45:19) burdens, (1 Samuel 6:7,8) or produce. (Amos 2:13) The only cart used in western Asia has two wheels of solid wood.

CART, noun

1. A carriage with two wheels, fitted to be drawn by one horse, or by a yoke of oxen, and used in husbandry or commercial cities for carrying heavy commodities. In Great Britain, carts are usually drawn by horses. In America, horse-carts are used mostly in cities, and ox-carts in the country.

2. A carriage in general.

CART, verb transitive

1. To carry or convey on a cart; as, to cart hay.

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

CARTAGE, noun The act of carrying in a cart, or the price paid for carting.

CART-BOTE, noun In English law, wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

CARTED, participle passive Borne or exposed in a cart.

CARTEL, noun

1. A writing or agreement between states at war, for the exchange of prisoners, or for some mutual advantage; also, a vessel employed to convey the messenger on this occasion.

2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. This sense the word has still in France and Italy; but with us it is obsolete.

CARTEL-ship, is a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy.

CARTEL, verb intransitive To defy.

CARTER, noun The man who drives a cart, or whose occupation is to drive a cart.

CARTESIAN, adjective Pertaining to the philosopher Des Cartes, or to his philosophy, which taught the doctrine of vortexes round the sun and planets.

CARTESIAN, noun One who adopts the philosophy of Des Cartes.

CARTHAGINIAN, adjective Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a celebrated city on the Northern Coast of Africa, about twelve miles from the modern Tunis. It was founded by the Phenicians, and destroyed by the Romans.

CARTHAGINIAN, noun An inhabitant or native of Carthage.

CARTHAMUS, noun The generic name of Bastard Saffron. [See Safflower.]

CART-HORSE, noun A horse that draws a cart.

CARTHUSIAN, noun One of an order of monks, so called from Chartreuse, the place of their institution. They are remarkable for their austerity. They cannot go out of their cells, except to church, nor speak to any person without leave.

CARTILAGE, noun Gristle; a smooth, solid, elastic substance, softer than bone, of a pearly color and homogeneous texture, without cells or cavities. It is invested with a particular membrane called perichondrium, which in the articular cartilages, is a reflexion of the synovial membrane.

CARTILAGINOUS, adjective

1. Pertaining to or resembling a cartilage; gristly; consisting of cartilage.

2. In ichthyology, cartilaginous fishes are those whose muscles are supported by cartilages instead of bones, or whose skeleton is cartilaginous Many of these are viviparous, as the ray and shark, whose young are excluded from an egg hatched within them. Others are oviparous, as the sturgeon. Some of them have no gill-covers, but breathe through apertures, on the sides of the neck or top of the head; others have gill-covers, but destitute of bony rays.

CARTING, participle present tense Conveying or exposing in a cart.

CARTING, noun The act of carrying in a cart.

CART-JADE, noun A sorry horse; a horse used in drawing, or fit only for the cart.

CART-LOAD, noun A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it.

CARTOON noun In painting, a design drawn on strong paper, to be afterward calked through and transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco. Also, a design colored for working in Mosaic, tapestry etc.

CARTOUCH, noun

1. A case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom girt with marlin, holding about four hundred musket balls, and six or eight iron balls of a pound weight, to be fired out of a howitz, for defending a pass. A cartouch is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; and sometimes for guns, being of a ball of a half or quarter of a pound weight, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tompion of wood and coated over.

2. A portable box for charges. [See Cartridge-box.]

3. A roll or scroll on the cornice of a column.

CARTRIDGE, noun [a corruption of cartouch.] A case of pasteboard or parchment, holding the charge of powder or powder and balls, for a cannon, mortar, musket or pistol. The cartridges for small arms, prepared for battle, contain the powder and ball; those for cannon and mortars are made of paste-board, or tin. Cartridges, without balls, are called blank cartridges.

CARTRIDGE-BOX, noun A case, usually of wood, covered with leather, with cells for cartridges. It is worn upon a belt thrown over the left shoulder, and hangs a little below the pocket-hole on the right side.

CART-ROPE, noun A rope for binding hay, or other articles on a cart.

CART-RUT, noun The cut or track of a cartwheel. [See Route.]

CART-TIRE, noun The tire, or iron bands, used to bind the wheels of a cart.

CARTULARY, noun A register-book, or record, as of a monastery. Blackstone writes it chartulary; and primarily it signifies the officer who has the care of charters and other public papers.

CART-WAY, noun A way that is or may be passed with carts, or other wheel carriages.

CART-WHEEL, noun The wheel of a cart.

CART-WRIGHT, noun An artificer who makes carts.

Carte-blanche. A blank paper, signed at the bottom with a persons name, and sometimes sealed with his seal, given to another person with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases.