carretar

14th century. From carreta (“cart, wagon”).

• IPA^(key): /kareˈtaɾ/

carretar (first-person singular present carreto, first-person singular preterite carretei, past participle carretado)

1. (transitive) to cart; to load and transport by means of a cart or wagon
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 486:

     Et alý acharõ quantas viandas quiserõ, et carretarõ et leuarõ quanta uianda se lles antollou.

     And they found there as many viands as they could want, and they loaded and carried as many as they wanted to

   • 1435, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 400:

     de trager Afonso Garçía, meestre da ponte d'Ourense, çento e viinte pedras delas duellas, e que sejan as pedras que sacou Johán Rodrigues, pedreiro, e de as trager e carretar á ponte d'Ourense

     to bring to Afonso Garcia, master of the bridge of Ourense, a hundred and twenty stones for [being worked as] voussoirs, and that these should be the ones extracted by Xohán Rodriguez, stonemason, and of bringing and carting them to the bridge of Ourense

   Synonym: carrexar

2. (transitive) to carry, to haul, to transport

   Synonyms: levar, transportar

3. (transitive, derogatory) to carry voters to the polling stations, usually with preselected ballots

• carreto

• carreta
• carreteiro

• “carretar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “carret” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “carretar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “carretar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “carretar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.