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词汇 carter
释义 carter
noun[ C ]
 old useuk /ˈkɑː.tər/ us /ˈkɑːr.t̬ɚ/
a person who drives a cart赶车人;马车夫
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Examples from literature

A carter comes along perhaps with a loaded waggon from some distance, and as he stays to drink his quart talks of the changes that are proceeding or imminent in his locality. 
And so the pony was tied to the cart, and Terry was hoisted to a seat on the turf beside the carter. 
The carts were laden with bundles of arrows, perhaps the same he had seen unloading that morning from the war-ship, and were accompanied only by carters. 
The next morning early Harry went to a carter in the town, and hired a cart for the day, leaving a deposit for its safe return at night. 
Unless continually greased the squeaking of such wheels is terrible, and the carters frequently forgot their grease-horns. 

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For carters and plumbers, as for lawyers, annual stipends are best regarded as retaining fees to ensure adequate service when it was required.
Also, a significant number worked as carmen, carters, carriers and draymen, which involved working with, and often living in close proximity to, animals.
Traders were advised by cartage foremen, carters, motor drivers and the company's commercial representatives.
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My next door neighbour is a carter and his wife was unwell too.
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The reference to economies in town office arrangements probably means the discharge of many agents, clerks, porters and carters.
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As regards highly skilled agricultural labour, this applies mainly to wagoners or carters, and shepherds.
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I tried to persuade these carters to carry out their legitimate business and transport the goods to the railway station.
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But take some tenant, a carter, or a mason, or a labourer, who is looking forward to the end of his lease, trembling.
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The carter was not actually ill-treating the horse.
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The master carter is interested in the docks as the fruits of his labour.
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I make bold to say that a carter put in charge of a valuable animal worth £50 is a responsible servant.
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By the very phrasing of their own letter they would issue their objection even to carters belonging to a trade union.
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Yet there were still a ¼million carters, cab drivers and bus drivers plying to and from the railway stations.
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The carter is fined, and the carting contractor pays the fine.
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You cannot take away the goods because there are no carters.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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