Dictionary

carter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑːtə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkɑɹtɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).

Meanings

1. A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
   • The wretched girl blushed and held her tongue, while Lancelot could be seen throwing his reins to the terrified carter, and storming up the drawbridge, shouting at the top of his voice. 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 42, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book III (The Ill-Made Knight):
   • They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside. 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
2. A fish, the whiff or Marysole.

Forms

Coordinates

horse-drawn · oxcart

Deriveds

under-carter · cane carter · carterly · undercarter · shit-carter

Relateds

cartman · cartwright

Translations (19)

ko 짐마차꾼 (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · es carretero (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · sv körkarl (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · sl furman (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · hu szekeres (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · fr charretier (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · de Kärrner (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · sl vozar (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · sv kusk (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · ca carreter (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · fi hevoskuski (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · de Fuhrmann m Wagner (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · mk кира́џија (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · pl woźnica (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · pt carreteiro (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · mk ко́лар (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · la plaustrārius (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · mk араба́џија (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart) · pl furman (person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart)