carter

plural carters

1. A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.

   The wretched girl blushed and held her tongue, while Lancelot could be seen throwing his reins to the terrified carter, and storming up the drawbridge, shouting at the top of his voice.

   1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 42, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book III (The Ill-Made Knight)

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   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.

plural Carters

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a carter.

   In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.

   2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN

   1. countableuncountableJimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America

      In September 2019, Carter warned Americans against reelecting Trump. […] In April 2021, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited the Carters at their home in Plains, after the former presidential couple was unable to travel to Washington for the 46th president’s inauguration.

      2024 December 29, Stephen Collinson, “Jimmy Carter, a one-term president who became a globe-trotting elder statesman, dies at 100”, in CNN

2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA former unincorporated community in Washington County, Arkansas.
   2. countableuncountableA township in Spencer County, Indiana.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
   4. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Chouteau County, Montana.
   5. countableuncountableA town in Beckham County, Oklahoma.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Tripp County, South Dakota.
   7. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Parker County, Texas.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wabeno, Forest County, Wisconsin.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Mercer, Iron County, Wisconsin.
   10. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Uinta County, Wyoming.