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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads.
  2. n. A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.
  3. n. A station wagon.
  4. n. A police patrol wagon.
  5. n. A child's low, four-wheeled cart hauled by a long handle that governs the direction of the front wheels.
  6. n. A small table or tray on wheels used for serving drinks or food: a dessert wagon.
  7. n. The Big Dipper
  8. n. Chiefly British An open railway freight car.
  9. v. To transport or undergo transportation by wagon.
  10. idiom. off the wagon Slang No longer abstaining from alcoholic beverages.
  11. idiom. on the wagon Slang Abstaining from alcoholic beverages.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A four-wheeled vehicle; a wain; specifically, a four-wheeled vehicle designed for the transport of heavy loads, or (of lighter build) for various purposes of business, as the delivery of goods purchased at a shop, or of express packages; loosely, such a vehicle, similar to the lighter business wagons, used for pleasure. The typical heavy wagon is a strong vehicle drawn by two or three horses yoked abreast, the fore wheels much smaller than the hind pair, and their axle swiveled to the body of the wagon to facilitate turning.
  2. n. An open four-wheeled vehicle for the conveyance of goods on railways.
  3. n. A chariot.
  4. n. A tool for trimming the edges of gold-leaf to size for a book. It consists of a frame carrying four edges of cane for cutting the gold-leaf, which does not adhere to cane as it would to metal.
  5. n. In mining, a car; a mine-car.
  6. To transport, convey, or carry in a wagon: as, to wagon goods.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
  2. n. A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
  3. n. US, Australia, slang A station wagon (or SUV).
  4. n. slang A paddy wagon.
  5. n. A truck, or lorry.
  6. n. Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory A derogatory term for a woman; bitch; slapper; cow.
  7. v. transitive To transport by means of a wagon.
  8. v. intransitive To travel in a wagon.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
  2. n. engraving A freight car on a railway.
  3. n. obsolete A chariot.
  4. n. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
  5. v. To transport in a wagon or wagons.
  6. v. To wagon goods as a business.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. van used by police to transport prisoners
  2. n. any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor
  3. n. a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
  4. n. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat
  5. n. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Etymologies

  1. From Dutch wagen, waghen, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz. Compare wain. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English waggin, from Middle Dutch wagen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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