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Webster 1828 Edition
Carting
CARTING
,ppr.
CARTING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
carting
carting
English
Verb
carting
- present participle of cart
Noun
carting (plural cartings)
- The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 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 […]’.
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 15: