Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads.
- noun A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.
- noun A station wagon.
- noun A police patrol wagon.
- noun A child's low, four-wheeled cart hauled by a long handle that governs the direction of the front wheels.
- noun A small table or tray on wheels used for serving drinks or food.
- noun The Big Dipper
- noun Chiefly British An open railway freight car.
- transitive & intransitive verb To transport or undergo transportation by wagon.
- idiom (off the wagon) No longer abstaining from alcoholic beverages.
- idiom (on the wagon) Abstaining from alcoholic beverages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transport, convey, or carry in a wagon: as, to
wagon goods. - noun A four-wheeled vehicle; a wain; specifically, a four-wheeled vehicle designed for the transport of heavy loads, or (of lighter build) for various purposes of business, as the delivery of goods purchased at a shop, or of express packages; loosely, such a vehicle, similar to the lighter business wagons, used for pleasure.
- noun An open four-wheeled vehicle for the conveyance of goods on railways.
- noun A chariot.
- noun A tool for trimming the edges of gold-leaf to size for a book. It consists of a frame carrying four edges of cane for cutting the gold-leaf, which does not adhere to cane as it would to metal.
- noun In mining, a car; a mine-car.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To transport in a wagon or wagons.
- noun A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
- noun engraving A freight car on a railway.
- noun obsolete A chariot.
- noun (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
- noun See the Note under
Boiler , 3. - noun (Arch.) a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
- noun an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like.
- noun a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag.
- noun (Arch.) See under 1st
Vault . - intransitive verb To wagon goods as a business.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A four-wheeled
cart for hauling loads. - noun A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- noun US, Australia, slang A
station wagon (orSUV ). - noun slang A
paddy wagon . - noun A
truck , orlorry . - noun Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory A derogatory term for a woman;
bitch ;slapper ;cow . - verb transitive To
transport by means of a wagon. - verb intransitive To travel in a wagon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun van used by police to transport prisoners
- noun any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor
- noun a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
- noun a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat
- noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then, we had five two-horse wagon loads of goods and furniture, and seven in family; now, our possessions were only a few articles, in _a one-horse wagon_, with an addition of two members to our household!
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Wagon - Buddhism uses the term wagon or vehicle to indicate different religious traditions.
The Annotated "Eyes of the World" Robert Hunter 1914
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The one that has never fallen off the wagon is the liar and coward because they could not admit it.
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And now the wagon is being approached by a bunch of armed strangers.
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On this dull rainy Monday this wagon is the only spot of colour.
Archive 2008-11-01 The Nag 2008
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They were heading for the emigrant trail, that being what we called the wagon road across the plains in those days.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899
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They were heading for the emigrant trail, that being what we called the wagon road across the plains in those days.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872
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Keeping the most economically muscular hitched to our financial wagon is especially important now, when Americans see themselves competing for prosperity, not with Wall Street, but with China.
Alex Castellanos: A Long Fall From an Ivory Tower Alex Castellanos 2010
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Saunders, a Yale graduate, said his step-father had been one of the famous "Buffalo Soldiers" on the plains, protecting white settlers traveling west in wagon trains.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The driver was a young giant, and when he climbed on top his load and poised a lump of coal in both hands, a policeman, who was just scaling the wagon from the side, let go and dropped back to earth.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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