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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dump \Dump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dumped}; p. pr & vb n. {Dumping}.] [OE. dumpen to throw down fall down cf Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw dimpa to fall down plump. Cf {Dump} sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence to unload from a cart by tilting it as to dump sand, coal, etc [U.S.] --Bartlett. {Dumping car} or {cart}, a railway car or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also {dump car}, or {dump cart}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cart \Cart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carted}; p. pr & vb n. {Carting}.] 1. To carry or convey in a cart. 2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. --Prior. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cart \Cart\, v. i. To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cart \Cart\, n. [AS. cr[ae]t; cf W. cart, Ir & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr Cf {Car}.] 1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. ``Ph[oe]bus' cart.'' --Shak. 2. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. --Dryden. 3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen butchers, etc 4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. {Cart horse}, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads. {Cart load}, or {Cartload}, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. {Cart rope}, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. {To} {put (or get or set)} {the cart before the horse}, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hose \Hose\ (h[=o]z), n.; pl {Hose}, formerly {Hosen} (h[=o]"z'n). [AS. hose; akin to D. hoos, G. hose breeches, OHG. hosa, Icel. hosa stocking, gather, Dan. hose stocking; cf Russ. koshulia a fur jacket.] 1. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. --Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. --Shak. 2. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings. 3. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. {Hose carriage}, {cart}, or {truck}, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. {Hose company}, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] {Hose coupling}, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end {Hose wrench}, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cart n 1: a heavy open vehicle usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal 2: pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries" [syn: {handcart}, {pushcart}, {go-cart}] v 1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {haul}, {drag}] 2: transport something in a cart [syn: {haul}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Cart a vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam. 6:3). The Hebrew word thus rendered, _'agalah_ (1 Sam. 6:7, 8), is also rendered wagon" (Gen. 45:19). It is used also to denote a war-chariot (Ps. 46:9). Carts were used for the removal of the ark and its sacred utensils (Num. 7:3, 6). After retaining the ark amongst them for seven months, the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. On this occasion they set it in a new cart, probably a rude construction, with solid wooden wheels like that still used in Western Asia, which was drawn by two milch cows, which conveyed it straight to Beth-shemesh. A "cart rope," for the purpose of fastening loads on carts, is used (Isa. 5:18) as a symbol of the power of sinful pleasures or habits over him who indulges them (See {CORD}.) In Syria and Palestine wheel-carriages for any other purpose than the conveyance of agricultural produce are almost unknown.
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