Cartage vs Cottage - What's the difference?
cartage | cottage |
The transport of goods by cart; carting
A charge made for such transport
A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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As nouns the difference between cartage and cottage
is that cartage is the transport of goods by cart; carting while cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut.As a verb cottage is
to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.cartage
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* 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.cottage
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(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}