carting

From cart +‎ -ing.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ

carting

1. present participle and gerund of cart

carting (plural cartings)

1. The transport of goods by cart.

   Synonym: cartage

   Hypernyms: shipping (broad sense) < transport < movement

   Near-synonym: wagonage

2. The transport of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 15:

     When Rowland Hill, Lord Mayor in 1550, instigated the carting of notable citizens for unchastity, several of them ‘told him that it was not right to be so severe […]’.

• crating, tracing

• karting

Borrowed from English karting.

carting n (uncountable)

1. karting