Wagon

Quick meaning: Wagon is a noun meaning A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (US, chiefly New England) A shopping cart.
2. (rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
3. Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
4. (Ireland, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.
5. Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
6. (slang) Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (chiefly Australia, US, Canada, informal) Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”); (occasionally, loosely) any car, van, or light truck.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

In all placs and ages children have played with things, some found by children, some fabricated by them, and some provided by parents or other adults. Today these might include a just-emptied rolled-oats carton salvaged from the kitchen, a knocked together wooden wagon set on cast-off baby buggy wheels, or a gaudy heavy plastic gm set of Chinese manufacture.

Word Forms

• wagons
• waggon
• wagoning
• wagonning
• wagoned
• wagonned

Synonyms for wagon

Depending on context, synonyms include car, carriage, railtruck, truck, coach, estate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waggon, cart, wheelbarrow, carriages, chariot, coach.

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