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car n also cart. Cp EDD ~ sb1 1 'a common cart' for
sense 1; OED sb1 3 obs 'sleigh or hurdle without wheels' for sense 2.
See also LONG CAR(T).
1 Horse-drawn vehicle.
[1867] 1899 Nfld Law Reports 210 [He was] maintained by the
produce of the farm and the monies earned by the hire of defendant's horse and car. 1972
NEMEC 85 In the pre-Confederation era it was not unusual for upwards of 1,500 horse 'car'
(cart) loads of kelp to be taken each spring from local beaches for use as fertilizer in
gardens and meadows and as feed for sheep and cattle.
2
Sledge.
1937 DEVINE 13 Cart—used for slide in Herring
Neck, and neighbourbood. P 205-55 'He tackled the horse to the car.' Horse-car and
hand-car both mean a slide used for hauling wood. P 266-67 Cart—used to haul wood
across ice and over fairly level ground.
3 Comb
car-driver, ~ man: carter.
[1867] 1899 Nfld Law Reports
210 The plaintiff ... abandoned a fishery in which he was engaged at Brigus South to
come and live with his father and serve him on the farm and as a car-driver in the town.
1978 Evening Telegram 19 Sep, p. 6 He [took down] the name of the carman.
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