Cart

a two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single animal. The cart is one of the most primitive of vehicles. The farm cart is a clumsy affair without springs. The box may be opened at the rear, and is so balanced on a rude hinge that by unhooking the front end it may be tipped backward to dump the contents. This form of a cart has been long in use for the conveyance of wood, manure, and for other farm work. A cart has never been considered a dignified conveyance. In London, criminals were conveyed in a cart to Tyburn for execution. Minor offenders were tied by the hands to the cart's tail and flogged through the public streets. Whittier, it may be remembered, speaks of

By the women of Marblehead.

Of late, however, the term has been applied as well to a stylish, light, runabout vehicle with springs, intermediate between the chaise and the sulky. See Cab; Carriage