Read full poem →The people pass through the dust
On bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;
The waggoners go by at dawn;
Dictionary Entry
A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
In a Sentence
“The grocer delivered his goods by cart.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. cartscarts bullockcarts shoppingcarts wheeledcarts drawncarts golf
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Poetry examples for “carts”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The moaning, groaning cars,
And the old milk carts go rumbling by
Under the same dull stars.
Read full poem →The fruit-carts and clam-carts were ribald as a fair,
(Pink nets and wet shells trodden under heel)
Read full poem →The Stubble's joints between --
And the Carts stooping round the fields
To take the Pumpkins in --
Read full poem →The people pass through the dust
On bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;
The waggoners go by at dawn;
Read full poem →He gave us the farm, the house, and the grange,
He gave us the horses and the carts,
And the great oxen in the stall,
Read full poem →That drive afield with carts and ploughs?
Such men are common here,
Read full poem →For the mere joy of riding back again,
When summer from the meadow carts the hay
And school hours leave them half a day to play;
Read full poem →think," says Gilbert Burns, "in the winter of 1784, as we were going
with carts for coals to the family fire, and I could yet point out the
particular spot, that Robert first repeated to me the 'Address to the
Read full poem →The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of
the promenaders,