Definitions for cartages

cartages cart·age

Spelling: [kahr-tij]
IPA: /ˈkɑr tɪdʒ/

Cartages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in cartages (aacegrst).

Definitions for cartages

noun

  1. the act or cost of carting.

Origin of cartages

Middle English word dating back to 1275-1325; See origin at cart, -age

Examples for cartages

Most of the cartage and trucking is done on bamboo poles by Chinamen and with hand trucks, pulled by ropes and shoved.

In cities, for purposes of carriage and cartage, men are used instead of horses.

Few horses or oxen were seen here, most of the cartage being done on two-wheeled trucks by men, women, and boys.

The crops were to a great extent cut, and some were in process of cartage in heavy waggons.

Freight, cartage, and cost of erecting the machine ready for use should be included.

cartage—The charges made for hauling goods by wagon, or otherwise than by freight or express.

We had no railway to Donegal, fifteen miles away, and cartage was too expensive.

We met a party of peons conveying salt on the backs of oxen to cartage.

Charged with the cost of freight and cartage on all purchases for the harness department.

This is no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky removal, the work of invisible levers.

Word Value for cartages
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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