Wagon
['wæg(ə)n] or ['wægən]
Definition
(noun.) any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor.
(noun.) a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting.
Checker: Walter--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Manfred
Definition
n. a four-wheeled vehicle for carrying heavy goods: (Shak.) a chariot.—v.t. to transport by wagon.—ns. Wag′onage money paid for conveyance by wagon; Wag′on-box -bed the carrying part of a wagon; Wag′oner Wag′goner one who conducts a wagon: (Shak.) a charioteer: (Spens.) the constellation Auriga; Wagonette′ a kind of open carriage built to carry six or eight persons with one or two seats crosswise in front and two back seats arranged lengthwise and facing inwards; Wag′onful as much as a wagon will hold; Wag′on-load the load carried by a wagon: a great amount; Wag′on-lock a kind of iron shoe which is placed on the rear-wheel of a wagon to retard motion in going downhill; Wag′on-train the machines used by an army for the conveyance of ammunition provisions sick &c.; Wag′on-wright a maker of wagons. Wagtail wag′tāl n. any bird of the family Motacillid so named from their constant wagging of the tail—the pipits or titlarks &c.: (Shak.) a pert person.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a wagon, denotes that you will be unhappily mated, and many troubles will prematurely age you. To drive one down a hill, is ominous of proceedings which will fill you with disquiet, and will cause you loss. To drive one up hill, improves your worldly affairs. To drive a heavily loaded wagon, denotes that duty will hold you in a moral position, despite your efforts to throw her off. To drive into muddy water, is a gruesome prognostication, bringing you into a vortex of unhappiness and fearful foreboding. To see a covered wagon, foretells that you will be encompassed by mysterious treachery, which will retard your advancement. For a young woman to dream that she drives a wagon near a dangerous embankment, portends that she will be driven into an illicit entanglement, which will fill her with terror, lest she be openly discovered and ostracised. If she drives across a clear stream of water, she will enjoy adventure without bringing opprobrium upon herself. A broken wagon represents distress and failure.
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Examples
- Only you would rather they would do something worse than merely stop a wagon before you reckon with them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rear guards were not necessary for him, and having always a railroad at his back, large wagon trains were not required. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The wagon trains should be kept well east of the troops, and if a crossing can be found, or made lower down than Jones's they should take it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The streets are generally about wide enough for one wagon, and how they do swarm with people! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- About the same time Hovey encountered the enemy on the northern or direct wagon road from Jackson to Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If nothing else could be done I would load a cord of wood on a wagon and take it to the city for sale. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- George spread his cloak in the wagon, and had the body carefully disposed of in it,--moving the seat, so as to give it room. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I happened to say, I thought it was a pity they had not been landed in Pennsylvania, as in that country almost every farmer had his wagon. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I put my pistol to the head of the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Five mules were allotted to each wagon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The wagon rattled, jumped, almost flew, over the frozen ground; but plainer, and still plainer, came the noise of pursuing horsemen behind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As the party neared the fence, they discovered in the distance, along the road, their own wagon coming back, accompanied by some men on horseback. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The cavalry and the wagon trains were to march, but all the troops that could be transported by the cars were to go in that way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As soon as the loss of the wagons and horses was generally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They take with them neither wagons nor artillery; these latter marching with the balance of the army to the James River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at that time, but I could drive, and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To meet the wagons? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Horsemen were streaming off in every direction, and the clatter of empty wagons being driven off almost drowned the sound of that terrible singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The train was made up of two carriages, filled with about forty passengers, and seven wagons loaded with stores. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What news of the wagons, Joe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Counting both pleasure and business vehicles, the borough of Manhattan boasted about 2,500 storage-battery driven wagons in active use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So many wagons, bearing his initial, running all over the country. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I asked what terms were to be offered the owners of the wagons; and I was desired to put on paper the terms that appeared to me necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thirty wagons also, counting two two-horse or mule teams as one, will be allowed to transport such articles as cannot be carried along. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He made his way through the State of New York in wagons drawn by oxen to the remote and primitive township of Bayfield, in Upper Canada, on Lake Huron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nah, maister; did th' wagons hit home? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were dogs now in the column, keeping under the wagons as they moved along. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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