[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To carry or convey in a cart; also fig.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 62. Cartyn or lede wythe a carte, carruco.
1663. Aron-bimn., 7. When the Ark was to be Carted to the City of David.
1807. De Quincey, in ‘H. A. Page,’ Life, I. vii. 129. We were all carted to the little town.
1864. J. H. Newman, Apol., 31. I hereby cart away as so much rubbish, the impertinences, with which the Pamphlet swarms.
† b. To mount on a cart or carriage. Obs.
1550. Hall, Chron., 5 Hen. VIII., 27. The pece of ordinaunce was raysed & carted, and furthe was it caried.
† 2. spec. To carry in a cart through the streets, by way of punishment or public exposure (esp. as the punishment of a bawd). Obs.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., I. i. 55. Leaue shall you haue to court her at your pleasure. Gre. To cart her rather. She’s to rough for mee.
1607. Dekker, &c., Northw. Hoe, I. iii. Wks. 1873, III. 13. I was neuer Carted (but in haruest) neuer whipt but at Schoole.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. I. 7/81. Democritus ne’r laugh’d so loud To see Bauds carted through the crowd.
1738. Pope, Epil. Sat., I. 150. Vice … lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
1812. Crabbe, T. of Hall, I. (D.). Suspected, tried, condemned, and carted in a day.
3. intr. or absol. To work with a cart; to use a cart.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VI. 62. Hit by-comeþ for … knaues vncrouned to cart and to worche.
1463. Marg. Paston, Lett., 480. II. 143. Your grey hors … nowthyr ryght good to plowe nor to carte.
1707. J. Mortimer, Husb. (ed. 2), 171 (L.). They [Oxen] are not so good for Draught where your ways are good, and that you have Occasion to cart much.
