a. fam. [f. CART sb.1 + -Y.] Of the breed and build of a cart horse.
1863. Reader, 7 Nov., 529. The early illuminators’ variations of a few podgy fat-calved knights, and the carty fetlocked horses they should have ridden.
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, II. III. i. 521. Well-bred but very strong and carty.
