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Conveyance with horse taken from ancient city
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cartage
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Word definitions for cartage in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the work of carting [syn: carting ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartage \Cart"age\, n. The act of carrying in a cart. The price paid for carting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from cart + -age .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The transport of goods by cart; carting 2 A charge made for such transport
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.