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Caratage vs Cartage - What's the difference?

caratage | cartage |

As nouns the difference between caratage and cartage

is that caratage is the purity of gold jewellery (the fraction of pure gold) while cartage is the transport of goods by cart; carting.

caratage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the purity of gold jewellery (the fraction of pure gold).

    • cartage

    English

    Noun

  • The transport of goods by cart; carting
  • A charge made for such transport

    • Quotations

    * 1848 Thomas Carlyle - Thomas Carlyle *: Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted * 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.