Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The part of a wagon mounted upon the wheels and axles, and used to contain the freight or passengers. Also
wagon-bed .
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Examples
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I could only get a glimpse of him occasionally from the wagon-box; but, though barely thirty yards off, I could not get a shot.
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The two teamsters in the wagon-box had been members of the rear guard, and their eyelids were half-shut and their faces white.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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The two teamsters in the wagon-box had been members of the rear guard, and their eyelids were half-shut and their faces white.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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The two teamsters in the wagon-box had been members of the rear guard, and their eyelids were half-shut and their faces white.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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Joe dragged him into bushes and got back up on the wagon-box.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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The commercial growers usually bring in their apples loose in the wagon-box, and the apples are packed into barrels here.
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Extra side boards were on his wagon-box, as they used to put them on in corn-gathering time back in the traveler's boyhood home in Indiana.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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We had a wagon-box on bobsleds, and the box was filled with hay and hot rocks with blankets on top and more to cover us.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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As the oxen, in trying to shield themselves from the hail, were forcing the front wheels around under the wagon-box, I was fortunate enough to get
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It had been concealed in the bottom of the wagon-box, and he had supposed the band would overlook it; but that, too, was gone.
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