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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

... the stations up-country. One time he went up with a load and was not heard of for such a long time that his missus got mighty uneasy; and then she got a letter from a publican up Coonamble way to say that Billy was dead. Someone wrote, for the widow, to ask about the wagon and the bullocks, but the shanty-keeper wrote that Billy had drunk them before he died, and that he'd also to say that he'd drunk the money he got for the carrying; and the publican enclosed a five-pound note for the widow—which was considered ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... not so wooden as most rich men who rent singers. I was properly affable. One has, under such circumstances, to be either gracious or pouty. Either you have to stand and sulk, like an old-fashioned German singer who wants the piano moved about for her like a tea-wagon, and the lights turned up and the lights turned down,—or you have to be a trifle forced, like a debutante trying to make good. The fixed attention of my audience affected me. I was aware of unusual interest, of a thoroughly enlisted public. When, however, my host at last left me, I felt ...

— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... agricultural-college acts and for internal-improvement purposes under the act of September, 1841, and the acts supplemental thereto, there had been conveyed up to the close of the last fiscal year, by patent or other equivalent title, to States and corporations 27,836,257.63 acres for railways, canals, and wagon roads. It is estimated that an additional quantity of 174,735,523 acres is still due under grants for like uses. The policy of thus aiding the States in building works of internal improvement was inaugurated more than forty years since in the grants to Indiana and Illinois, to aid those ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant

... crowd has been breaking up and dispersing. The curtain falls on the disappearing spectators and on Pierrot and his troupe packing up their wagon to go to ...

— The Lamp and the Bell • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... her, before they reached the hummock, that this stream rose in the winter and flooded all about the farm, so that the latter really was an island. Unless the ice remained firm they sometimes could not drive out with either wagon or sled for ...

— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

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