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load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or get or set) the cart b…

wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge.

Same as Caravel.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. Rising and cawing at the gun's report. Shak.

That which is engraved. [Obs.] Hakewill.

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

on around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.…

To engrave; to inscribe. [R.] These trees shall be my books. And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character. Shak.

To engrave or imprint. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]