Scottish and northern Irish: reduced form of McCart.English: from Middle English cart(e) ‘cart’ (from Old
English cræt, Old Norse kartr), hence a metonymic
occupational name for a carter or cartwright.French: from
Old Occitan cart, a variant of quart, a term which in
the Middle Ages denoted a tax levied on wine; hence possibly a
metonymic occupational name for a tax collector.
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