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noun

Wagon n.

1.

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities.

2.

A freight car on a railway. (Eng.)

3.

A chariot (Obs.)

4.

(Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.

Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.

Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular.

Wagon master, 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.

Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag.

Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.

verb

Wagon v. t. (past & past part. wagoned; pres. part. wagoning) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

Wagon v. i. To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

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"Wagon" Quotes from Famous Books

... loose knots; inside a servant came and went, putting the room to rights again, airing it and changing the furniture. In the road before the house he had seen the marks of the wheels of the undertaker's wagon where it had been backed up to the horse-block. As he closed the front door behind him and stood for a moment in the hallway, his valise in his hand, he saw, hanging upon one of the pegs of the hat-rack, the hat Ferriss had last worn. Bennett ...

— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris

... that he could not be expected to reach the village until fully an hour after dark. "Just another hour and a half," he said to himself; "ebery thing depend upon what happen before dat time." It was quite dusk before he regained the shelter of the cottage. He had gone round by the wagon, and had taken from it a large stable-fork, muttering as he did so. "Golly! dis de berry ting." Close by he saw the carcase of a bullock which the guerillas had just slaughtered, and from this he cut ...

— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty

... more than forty miles. This was on the 3d day of September in 1873. He set out at once, the man with whom he had made the bet—whose name is not remembered—accompanied by Barham Wise, a linen draper, and Hamerson Burns, a photographer, I think, following in a light cart or wagon. ...

— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce

... In a farm wagon was heaped the litter of household effects. These people were whipped, starved out, beaten. Ham Burton turned on his heel and trudged away. His father's farm was little more productive than this one, but his father had that uncompromising iron in his blood that comes from Pilgrim forebears. ...

— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... and still now but for the timbering rats; The low smooth paven dairy, where the moon Now sent a shaft on one full yellow bowl; The barn so happily at teeming time again, The rickyard stacked with hurdles by the fence, The long loft over plough and wagon teams. Among the heavy apple trees he passed, By ledgy sheep track, over the new stubble, Across the valley, and in the shadow kept Of Martin Dane's home hop-yard, and again Back to his own hillside. And in the south, Beyond ...

— Preludes 1921-1922 • John Drinkwater

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