wagon

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Flood complimented our cook and horse wrangler on their foresight, for the wagon was our base of sustenance; and there was little loss of time before Barney McCann was calling us to a hastily prepared breakfast.

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  1. noun A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads.
  2. noun A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.
  3. noun A station wagon.

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  • Under the wagon was a wounded man, and close to him four others, who, drained of nearly all their life-blood, lay crouched together in helplessness, with the hoods of their ragged grey overcoats drawn down on their faces. —  In the Track of the Troops
  • The child seen in the wagon was a girl of fourteen. —  Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
  • "I should think that riding in a wagon was adventure enough for anyone, without any other sort of danger added to it But Rusty Wren didn't agree with him Riding in a wagon is nothing," he declared. —  The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck-Me-In Tales
  • Dinner over the wagon is again loaded up, the twenty or more beds thrown in, the team hitched and started for the night camping-ground, some place where there is lots of good grass for the cattle and saddle horses, and at the same time far enough away from all the other herds. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • All the land lay around them dark and desolate under the midnight sky; and the slow creaking of the wheels and sluggish hoof-beats of the horse dragging the wagon were the only sounds that broke the stillness In this gloom old Marlowe could hold no conversation either with Phebe or Roland Sefton, but from time to time they could hear him sob aloud as he trudged on in his speechless isolation. —  Cobwebs and Cables
 

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  1. Middle English waggin, from Middle Dutch wagen; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from wagon, n.
 

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/ˈwægən/
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