ppl. a. [f. CART v. + -ED1.] Carried in a cart; spec. as a punishment.

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1683.  Soame & Dryden, trans. Boileau’s Art Poetry, 33 (L.). Thespis … with his Carted Actors.

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1692.  Southerne, Wives Excuse, II. i. Like a carted bawd justly punish’d for the sins of the people.

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c. 1730.  Swift, Clad in Brown, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 263. Old carted bawds such garments wear.

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