wagon — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

   Examples

   These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.

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   The first waggon was loaded, and moved a few yards along the quay, and the second took its place. There was an order and swiftness over the work that told of a careful preparation. The third waggon took the place of the second and the work of loading it went even faster. Then, at a shout from the Grocer, the loaders threw off their slings, took every man of them a cudgel from beneath his smock, and formed themselves as a guard about the waggons that went away quickly along the quay on their way inland.

   It was five miles or more from Maggot's lane to the Ferry. The hobbits wrapped themselves up, but their ears were strained for any sound above the creak of the wheels and the slow clop of the ponies' hoofs. The waggon seemed slower than a snail to Frodo.

   On the sixteenth-century farm all the heavy hauling of lime or marl for the fields, gravel for the lanes, timber for the fences and 'coals or other necessary fuel fetched far off' had to be done as far as possible in the summer while the roads were still dry and firm. […] About the end of October the prudent farmer, like Best of Elmswell near Driffield, laid up his waggon, and sent his corn to market during the winter months on a string of eight pack-horses, tied head to tail, with a couple of men to 'guide the pokes'.

2. A shopping cart.

   Usage

   • New-England
   • US usage

3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.

   Synonyms

   carrailway carriagecarriagerailtrucktruckcoach

   Broader terms

   rolling stock

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   Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but practically these projects wholly fail. […] It is calculated that to bring a train of fifty wagons under the machine, one by one, a horse would have to traverse five miles and a half.

   The total weight of goods and minerals loaded into wagons on the railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1913, the last complete period of working under normal conditions before the outbreak of war, was 372,037,000 tons, of which 299,129,000 tons, or 80.41 per cent., consisting of coal and minerals.

4. Term of abuse. A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • Dated
   • Derogatory
   • Slang

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   […] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.

5. Term of abuse. An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • broadly
   • Derogatory
   • Slang

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   —Don’t know. —She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. / Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. / —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.

   Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.

6. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

7. Buttocks.

   Usage

   • Slang

Verb

1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Transitive

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   The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.

   Bar iron, of the first quality; pig metal and castings, of various denominations; wheat in large quantities; other grain, whiskey, gin, clover-seed, flax-seed, beeswax, butter et cetera, are wagoned to these points, and others on the streams mentioned, and taken down the Susquehanna.

   Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.

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   In compliance with the positive injunction of the 4th section of the internal improvement act of 1836, which expressly declares that the canal shall be constructed and completed "to the Ohio river at Lawrenceburgh," and to exempt the opening trade from the expense and delay of wagoning to and from the river, as stated in the report of the board, the necessary steps were taken to connect the trade of the canal with the navigation of the river.

   But then he learned about the junk man who brought newspapers, bottles, magazines and metal. So he made the neighborhood rounds collecting these items and then wagonned them down town to the junk yard.

   Around 1903, smallpox and typhoid became so bad at the new Kirby mill town of Silsbee that the company doctor ordered wives to keep their children inside, lest they be infected by germs shaken from the pine coffins of disease victims wagoned through town on their way to the cemetery.

2. To travel in a wagon.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Intransitive

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   [T]he toll was taken off freight on ninety miles of the canal between Huntingdon and Duncan's Island, and subsequently off passengers, to enable the companies to meet the unexpected and heavy expense necessarily incurred by staging and wagoning across the breach in the line.

   “I remember well the stories my great aunt told me in the late 1940’s. / “The stories of my great-grandfather who wagonned with his family from Gravenhurst, Ontario, to Nipissing Village where he built a log cabin and spent the winter.

Noun

1. any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

   Synonyms

   waggon

   Broader terms

   wheeled vehicle

2. van used by police to transport prisoners

   Synonyms

   police vanpolice wagonpaddy wagonpatrol wagonblack MariaBlack Maria

   Broader terms

   van

3. a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

   Synonyms

   coaster wagon

   Broader terms

   wheeled vehicle

4. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

   Synonyms

   beach wagonstation wagonestate carbeach waggonstation waggonwaggon

   Broader terms

   carautoautomobilemachinemotorcar