Definitions

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  • noun (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door

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Examples

  • As the time passed, I worked as boy-helper on an ice-wagon, set up pins in a bowling alley with a saloon attached, and swept out saloons at Sunday picnic grounds.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • He crawled down again and sought out the janitress, who stopped watching an ice-wagon in the street to say:

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • Now it was a slow car that managed to roll along "like an ice-wagon," as Thad laughingly called out on going ahead.

    The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

  • Clinging to the little one, he flung himself backward, and like a flash the horse sprang past, dragging the ice-wagon so close that the wheels scraped his leg.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • First, that I was not any good, second that I couldn't tackle, and third that I ran like an ice-wagon.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • The ice-wagon was heading directly for the child and unless something was done the little one would be run over and most likely killed.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • He saw that the horse attached to the ice-wagon could not be stopped and realized only too well what it meant should he be struck down.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • "'Member how we crawled in the empty ice-wagon once?" she asked Freddie.

    The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City Laura Lee Hope

  • As he did this an ice-wagon came along at a furious speed, the driver on the seat trying in vain to stop his horse.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • Even more, he was irritated by a suspicion of the ice-wagon driver.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

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