cartage

English

Etymology tree

Old Norse kartrbor.

Proto-Germanic *kradô

Proto-West Germanic *krat

Old English crætder.

Middle English cart

English cart

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin -āticum

Old French -agebor.

Middle English -age

English -age

English cartage

From cart + -age.

(non-rhotic)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkʰɑːtʰɪd͡ʒ]
(rhotic)
- (General American)
  - (without t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkʰɑɹtʰɪd͡ʒ]
  - (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹɾɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkʰɑɹɾɪd͡ʒ]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪdʒ
Hyphenation: car‧tage

cartage (countable and uncountable, plural cartages)

The transport of goods by cart.
Synonym: carting

Near-synonym: wagonage

Hypernyms: shipping (broad sense) < transport < movement
- 1848, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle:
  Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted
- 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
  In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.
Any vehicular transportation of goods.
Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage
- 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:
  I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.
A charge made for such transport.
Hypernyms: charge, fee, cost, price

Near-synonym: wagonage
- 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.