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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartage

Cartage \Cart"age\, n.

  1. The act of carrying in a cart.

  2. The price paid for carting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cartage

c.1300, from cart + -age.

Wiktionary
cartage

n. 1 The transport of goods by cart; carting 2 A charge made for such transport

WordNet
cartage

n. the work of carting [syn: carting]

Usage examples of "cartage".

But of his craft, to rekene wel his tydes, His stremes, and his daungers hym bisides, His herberwe and his moone, his lodemenage, Ther nas noon swich from Hulle to Cartage.

Once a fortnight I go down the mine and leave payment for the knockers and the bluecaps in a solitary corner, keeping a bit back myself for cartage.

And it is said their service in peace is the labor of one for one day in every week and two for one day in mainharvest and hayharvest weeks with plow and team and scythe and cartage, and of grain ten horseloads, and one colt in ten and one beast in ten and the wool of fifteen sheep.