wagon

[Wag·on]

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

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A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

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

Noun
van used by police to transport prisoners

Noun
any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor

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

Noun
a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

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n.
A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

n.
A freight car on a railway.

n.
A chariot

n.
The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

v. t.
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

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


Wagon

Wag"on , n. [D. wagen. &root;136. See Wain.] 1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. &hand; 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.] Spenser. 4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. &hand; 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.

Wagon

Wag"on , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning.] To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

Wagon

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

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

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

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Usage Examples

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

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