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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large open farm wagon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, or for carrying corn, hay, etc.; a wagon or cart.
  2. n. Same as Charles's Wain.
  3. To carry; convey; fetch.
  4. n. A Middle English form of gain.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic or literary A wagon; A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
  2. v. common misspelling of wane.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
  2. n. obsolete A chariot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large open farm wagon
  2. n. English writer (1925-1994)
  3. n. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Etymologies

  1. Old English wæġn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with Danish/Norwegian vogn, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Frisian wein, Swedish vagn. Compare wagon. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English wǣn, wægn; see wegh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Louises When the sukebind weighs heavily on the wains. cold Comfort Farm. Feb 19, 2013

  • jaime_d From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport. Jan 19, 2010

  • seanahan As used in wainwright. Sep 30, 2008

  • mollusque As everyone knows, two days before Philip issued the arrest warrant, and a month before it was carried out, a hay wain drawn by oxen left the precincts of the Temple for an unknown destination.
    --Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 122 Sep 29, 2008

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