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Cart vs Dray - What's the difference?

cart | dray |

As nouns the difference between cart and dray

is that cart is a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers while dray is a low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.

As a verb cart

is to carry goods.

As a proper noun CART

is acronym of lang=en|Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America.

cart

English

(wikipedia cart)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old English .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
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  • A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
    • Derived terms
    * cartwheel * dogcart * go-cart * golf cart * luggage cart * oxcart * pushcart * put the cart before the horse * shopping cart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry goods.
    • I've been carting these things around all day .
  • To carry or convey in a cart.
  • (obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
  • * Prior
    • She chuckled when a bawd was carted .

    References

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (cartridge).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
    • My ''Final Fantasy'' cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

    Anagrams

    * *

    dray

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) draye, 1325-1375. Compare .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I,
    • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire
    (Addison)
  • A kind of sledge or sled.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 2

    Unknown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • variant spelling of drey , The nest of a squirrel.

    • Anagrams

    * * English terms with unknown etymologies