cartage
[kahr-tij]
noun
the act or cost of carting.
Origin of cartage
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Related Words for cartage
transportation, shipment, service, travel, influx, gridlock, freight, transit, transport, movement, transfer, passage, flux, jam, truckageExamples from the Web for cartage
Historical Examples of cartage
We had no railway to Donegal, fifteen miles away, and cartage was too expensive.
Ireland as It IsRobert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
In cities, for purposes of carriage and cartage, men are used instead of horses.
Up To Date BusinessVarious
We met a party of peons conveying salt on the backs of oxen to Cartage.
In New GranadaW.H.G. Kingston
The crops were to a great extent cut, and some were in process of cartage in heavy waggons.
In the Russian RanksJohn Morse
This is no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky removal, the work of invisible levers.
The Glow-Worm and Other BeetlesJean Henri Fabre
cartage
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