cartage

plural cartages

1. countableuncountableThe transport of goods by cart.

   Near-synonym: wagonage

   2 more examples

   Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted

   1848, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle

   In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.

   2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42

   Synonyms: carting, wagonage

2. countableuncountableAny vehicular transportation of goods.

   Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage

   1 more example

   I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.

   2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21

   Synonyms: shipping, carriage

3. countableuncountableA charge made for such transport.

   Near-synonym: wagonage

   1 more example

   1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.

   Synonyms: wagonage