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Definition of Cartage
1. Noun. The work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it.
Definition of Cartage
1. n. The act of carrying in a cart.
Definition of Cartage
1. Noun. The transport of goods by cart; carting ¹
2. Noun. A charge made for such transport ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cartage
1. the act of carting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartage
Literary usage of Cartage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (1842)
"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. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Rebate equal to cartage charges is discriminative.—The fact that a shipper has
a siding connection with one railroad which enables him to get his goods ..."
3. Ports and Terminal Facilities by Roy Samuel MacElwee (1918)
"Again, the problem of elimination of cross-cartage is largely a railroad problem,
... The cartage problem is, however, more than a port problem as such. ..."
4. Railway Rates: The Method of Calculating Equitable Rates and Charges for by Joseph Horrocks (1909)
"If the same scale of charges for cartage were deemed appropriate for all towns,
two Tables of Rates and Charges, including charges for cartage, ..."
5. Factory Accounts, Their Principles and Practice; a Handbook for Accountants by Emile Garcke, John Manger Fells (1893)
"A cartage account should be opened, to which should be debited the wages of the
carters ... The cartage account will of course be credited with the journeys ..."
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