carting

From cart +‎ -ing.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/

carting

1. present participle of cart

carting (plural cartings)

1. The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 15:

     When Rowland Hill, Lord Mayor in 1550, instigated the carting of notable citizens for unchastity, several of them ‘told him that it was not right to be so severe […]’.

• crating, tracing

• karting

From English karting.

carting n (uncountable)

1. karting