wagon
//ˈwæɡən//
Forms
- Plural
- wagons
- present (v1)
- wagon
- past (v2)
- wagoned
- past participle (v3)
- wagoned
- present participle
- wagoning
- 3rd person singular
- wagons
Definitions
1.A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
- These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.
2.A shopping cart.
3.A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
4.Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
- The waiters wore red jackets with black lapels, in summer white jackets with green lapels. There was a roast beef wagon. A pastry section in the huge kitchen.
1.To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
- Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.
- But then he learned about the junk man who brought newspapers, bottles, magazines and metal. So he made the neighborhood rounds collecting these items and then wagonned them down town to the junk yard.
2.To travel in a wagon.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4960
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh.