Definitions
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- noun (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door
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Examples
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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
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He crawled down again and sought out the janitress, who stopped watching an ice-wagon in the street to say:
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"'Member how we crawled in the empty ice-wagon once?" she asked Freddie.
The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City Laura Lee Hope
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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
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Even more, he was irritated by a suspicion of the ice-wagon driver.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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