Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any large box-wagon, used especially by farmers for the transportation of miscellaneous heavy articles; also, a heavy wagon used in hauling lumber.
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Examples
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On its margin I found an irregular wooden inn, with a lumber-wagon at the door, on which was the carcass of a large grizzly bear, shot behind the house this morning.
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He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
Main Street 2004
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A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
Main Street 2004
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Talaysen kept an ear out for the sound of a lumber-wagon behind them.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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My brother James met us at Grand Rapids with what, in those days, was called a lumber-wagon, but which had a horrible resem - blance to a vehicle from the health department.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
Main Street 1920
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He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
Main Street 1920
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Along the deep-rutted road in front a belated lumber-wagon passed slowly, the wheels crunching through the packed snow with a wavering, incessant shriek.
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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