Meaning of Cartage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The transport of goods by cart.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any vehicular transportation of goods.
   countable, uncountable
3. A charge made for such transport.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: wagonage”

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

“In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.”

“Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage”

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

“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.”

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