carter
nounUS /ˈkɑɹtɚ/ · UK /ˈkɑːtə/
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).
1
A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 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.
- Derived terms
- cane carter, carterly, shit-carter, under-carter, undercarter
- Related terms
- cartman, cartwright
- Coordinate terms
- horse-drawn, oxcart