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cartings

cartings is the plural of carting.

Meaning of carting

Noun

carting (plural cartings)

  1. The transport of goods by cart.
    • Near-synonym: wagonage
    Synonyms:
    cartage, wagonage
  2. The transport of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
    • 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 […]’.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 15

Questions about cartings

What is cartings the plural of?
Cartings is the plural of carting.

Words near cartings in the dictionary

  1. cartiliginous
  2. cartilogenesis
  3. carting
  4. carting away
  5. carting off
  6. cartings
  7. cartinine
  8. cartist
  9. cartists
  10. Cartland
  11. Cartledge

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