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Definition of Carting
1. Noun. The work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it.
Definition of Carting
1. Verb. (present participle of cart) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carting
1. cart [v] - See also: cart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carting
Literary usage of Carting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1862)
"The working of the portable engine and threshing machine has shown how inexpedient
it is to waste a fine day fit for threshing out of doors in carting crops ..."
2. Street-cleaning and the Disposal of a City's Wastes: Methods and Results and by George Edwin Waring (1897)
"Most of the stable force is charged to carting. ... After this they devote
themselves to the carting of garbage until this is all removed. ..."
3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"... so that they were many days carting and carrying friends up and down from
place to place. And when afterwards the officers came to lay their charges for ..."
4. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain by Nathan Daboll, Samuel Green (1837)
"... paid for carting the same 1 dollar 25 cents, and by accident 9 gallons leaked
out ; at what rale must I sell the remainder per gallon, ..."
5. The South Carolina Historical Magazine by South Carolina Historical Society (1902)
"To carting 3 Load Scantling \ from Gibbs Wharf to D°f> (• 2,, Order of D9 ) To
carting 1500 Brick from \ order Toomer ) 5„— 16„ 3 5„— Champneys Whf. to D° ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"... the old slow method of dredging out the banks and shoals, and carting the soil
away, was again to be put into practice. Another scheme was indeed ..."
Other Resources:
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