Talk:Cart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Equine This article is within the scope of WikiProject Equine, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles relating to horses, asses, zebras, hybrids, equine health, equine sports, etc. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at the barn.
Start This page has been rated as Start-Class on the quality assessment scale
Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance assessment scale

[edit] Baby transport

I really don't think that pushchair and perambulator should redirect here. Even worse is the redirect for pram (Parallel Random Access Machine). Anyone think of a decent collective term for these so that a new article could be created? violet/riga (t) 21:36, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Two wheels or four

What should be the scope of this article - just the two-wheeled vehicles or two- and four-wheeled vehicles? If it includes four-wheeled vehicles, shouldn't wagon be merged with it? Nurg 05:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I think there are also three-wheeled vehicles, although not as common as two- or four- ones. It's basically a two-wheeled one with an extra wheel to prevent tipping over when not attended. It's somewhat easier to change direction than a four-wheeled vehicle. I have seen a commercially made one used as a baby carriage. --Revth 07:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

What about wheelbarrows, are they a type of cart?--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 17:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

It's true that Merriam-Webster defines "cart" as (a) a heavy, two-wheeled vehicle usually drawn by horses, (b) a lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle drawn by horse, pony, or dog, and (c) a small wheeled vehicle. I suppose you could redo the 'types of cart' section, which is pretty rambly. I would go for heavy, medium, and light for the two-wheeled kind; send people off to 'wagon' for four wheels and 'wheelbarrow' for one. Three you could knock off in a sentence. (I'm not sure a three-wheeled baby carriage qualifies as a cart except in the most generic sense.) — OtherDave 17:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
A wheelbarrow is a barrow, a one or two-wheeled hand-propelled vehicle which is guided from the rear. It is of a class with sack barrow, box barrow, stone barrow, costermonger's barrow and luggage barrow. Most of these have two wheels but the wheelbarrow is adapted to use on a plank and to being particularly manoeuvrable.
A cart is the converse of a barrow. It is a two-wheeled vehicle, drawn and guided from the front. Though there are some borderline cases such as the chasse-marée and the wheeled troika which really fall just outside the definition, a animal-drawn cart is propelled by one animal. The hand cart is best seen in the jinricksha (rickshaw), rather than in anything seen in cart articles in Wikipedia.
The article needs to be cleaned up so that the real meaning of the word 'cart' is made clear, so that readers understand what the word is about. Then, all the modern misconceived uses can treated, with this understanding established.(RJP 12:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC))

OED gives cart as "a strong open vehicle with two or four wheels, typically used for carrying loads and pulled by a horse." So I don't think it's OK to define cart as a two wheeler. I'd say the "carrying loads" bit is more definitive, as opposed to purely human transport. JackyR | Talk 18:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)