cartage

English

Etymology

cart +‎ -age

Noun

cartage (countable and uncountable, plural cartages)

1. The transport of goods by cart; carting
   • 1848, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle:

     Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted

   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

     In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.

2. Any vehicular transportation of goods.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:

     I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.

3. A charge made for such transport.
   • 1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law

     Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.