carter

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).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtə/

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• Homophone: Carter
• Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cart‧er

carter (plural carters)

1. A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:

     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.

2. A fish, the whiff or Marysole.

• horse-drawn
• oxcart

• Crater, arrect, crater, tracer

From carta +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kərˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈteɾ]

carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera, feminine plural carteres)

1. postman, letter carrier
2. (card games) reserve (remaining cards not dealt out)

• carteria

• “carter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tɛʁ/

carter m (plural carters)

1. housing (of an engine)

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.te/

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carter

1. to verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card

• “carter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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carter

1. (transitive) to fold (laundry)

From English charter, from Middle English charter, chartre, from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃartər]
• Hyphenation: car‧têr
• Rhymes: -tər, -ər, -r

carter

1. to charter: to lease or hire something by charter

   Synonym: sewa

• “carter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

carter m (invariable)

1. chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
2. oil sump (in a car)

• IPA^(key): /kaʈər/, /kaʁtər/

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• Rhymes: -ər
• Hyphenation: cart‧er
• Homophone: karter

carter m

1. indefinite plural of carte

• tracer