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A Haitian hand cart. A cart is a vehicle or device, using two wheels and normally one horse, designed for transport. A handcart is pulled or pushed by a person. It is different from a dray or wagon, which is a heavy transport vehicle with four wheels and normally at least two horses, which in turn is different from a carriage, which is used exclusively for transporting humans. Animals such as oxen, zebu cattle or donkeys are sometimes used instead of horses.
History
Carts from different Malay regions, exhibited at the Muzium Negara. Carts were often used for judicial punishments, both to transport the condemned – a public humiliation in itself (in Ancient Rome defeated leaders were often carried in the victorious general's triumph) – and even, in England until its substitution by the whipping post under Queen Elizabeth I, to tie the condemned to the cart-tail and administer him or her a public whipping. Types of cartsLarger carts may be drawn by animals, such as horses, mules, or oxen. They have been in continuous use since the invention of the wheel, in the 5th millennium BC. Carts may be named for the animal that pulls them, such as horsecarts or oxcarts. In modern times, horsecarts are used in competition while draft horse showing. A dogcart, however, is usually a cart designed to carry hunting dogs: an open cart with two cross-seats back to back; the dogs could be penned between the rear-facing seat and the back end. The term "cart" (synonymous in this sense with chair) is also used for various kinds of lightweight, two-wheeled carriages, some of them sprung carts (or spring carts), especially those used as open pleasure or sporting vehicles. They could be drawn by a horse, pony or dog. Examples include:
An animal-drawn cart can bear the archaic name of wain (from the Old English and German root-word for wagon), for example a haywain, and the builders of such vehicles became known as "cartwrights" or "wainwrights". These terms survive as surnames of families descended from those practising these trades; also note the surname "Carter". 
Ox carts in Madagascar Traces are made from a range of materials depending on the load and frequency of use. Heavy draught traces are made from iron or steel chain. Lighter traces are often leather and sometimes hemp rope, but plaited horse-hair and other similar decorative materials can be used. The dray is often associated with the transport of barrels, particularly of beer. Of the cart types not animal-drawn, perhaps the most common example today is the shopping cart (British English: shopping trolley), which has also come to have a metaphorical meaning in relation to online purchases (here, British English uses the metaphor of the shopping basket). Shopping carts first made their appearance in Oklahoma City in 1937. The golf cart, designed to carry golfers and their clubs around a golf course faster and with less effort than walking, is another well known modern type of cart – in this case, self-propelled. A Porter's trolley is a type of small, hand-propelled wheeled platform. This can also be called a baggage cart. since the 13th century. A soap-box cart (also known as a Billy Cart, Go-Cart, Trolley etc.) is a popular children's construction project on wheels, usually pedaled, but also intended for a test race. The term "Go-Kart", which exists since 1959, also shortened as "Kart", an alternative spelling of "cart", refers to a tiny race car with frame and two-stroke engine; the old term go-cart originally meant a sedan chair or an infant walker "Autocarts" are a type of small, hand-propelled wheeled utility carts having a pivoting base for storage in vehicles. They eliminate the need for plastic or paper shopping bags and are used by tradespersons to carry tools, equipment or supplies.(Photos) Gallery<gallery> Image:Cart.jpg|A charrette, a wooden French cart (Cévennes). Image:DirkvdM cuba horsecart.jpg|A horsecart in Santiago de Cuba. Image:Windmill and Cart.JPG|Cart and windmill at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, USA. Image:Rusty Cart Wheel 2000px.jpg|An iron-lined wooden-spoked cart wheel Image:Australian cart.jpg|A simple wooden cart in Australia. Image:Cernuschi Museum 20060812 147.jpg|A Chinese Sui Dynasty (581–618 AD) cart figurine pulled by a bull. Image:Horsecart with watermelons.jpg|A cart transporting watermelons in Harbin, China. One man sits by the shafts to ensure the horse pulls against a downward load. </gallery> See also
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