Wagon vs. Truck — What's the Difference?

A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from carts (which have two wheels) and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles primarily for carrying people, such as carriages.

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the vast majority feature body-on-frame construction, with a cabin that is independent of the payload portion of the vehicle.

A vehicle used for transporting goods or another specified purpose

A large, heavy road vehicle used for carrying goods, materials, or troops; a lorry.

An unpleasant or disliked woman.

A railway bogie.

A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads.

A wooden disc at the top of a ship's mast or flagstaff, with holes for halyards to slide through.

A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.

Barter.

A station wagon.

Small wares.

A police patrol wagon.

Market-garden produce, especially vegetables

A child's low, four-wheeled cart hauled by a long handle that governs the direction of the front wheels.

Convey by truck

A small table or tray on wheels used for serving drinks or food

Barter or exchange.

Wagon The Big Dipper

Any of various heavy motor vehicles designed for carrying or pulling loads.

Chiefly British An open railway freight car.

A hand truck.

To transport or undergo transportation by wagon.

A wheeled platform, sometimes equipped with a motor, for conveying loads in a warehouse or freight yard.

A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

A set of bookshelves mounted on four wheels or casters, used in libraries.

Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.

One of the swiveling frames of wheels under each end of a railroad car or trolley car.

(rail) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.

Either of the frames housing a pair of wheels on a skateboard or landboard.

(slang) transporting]] prisoners

(Nautical) A small piece of wood placed at the top of a mast or flagpole, usually having holes through which halyards can be passed.

; (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.

Chiefly British A railroad freight car without a top.

A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

The trading of goods or services without the exchange of money; barter.

(math) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

Articles of commerce; trade goods.

(slang) Buttocks.

Garden produce raised for the market.

To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.

(Informal) Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish

To travel in a wagon.

(Informal) Dealings; business

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

To transport by truck.

A freight car on a railway.

To carry goods by truck.

A chariot

To drive a truck.

The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

(Slang) To move or travel in a steady but easy manner.

To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

To have dealings or commerce; traffic

To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

To exchange; barter.

Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor

To peddle.

Van used by police to transport prisoners

A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

The ball on top of a flagpole.

A child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

(nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".

A car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods

A lorry with a closed or covered carriage

A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods

Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.

Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.

The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.

Dirt or other messiness.

Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

(historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].

Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

(intransitive) To drive a truck.

(transitive) To convey by truck.

To travel or live contentedly.

To persist, to endure.

To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

To fight or otherwise physically engage with.

To run over or through a tackler in American football.

To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.

To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.

To deceive; cheat; defraud.

To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.

(intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.

(intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.

A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; - sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.

A freight car.

A frame on low wheels or rollers; - used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

A motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight;

Exchange of commodities; barter.

Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.

The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; - called also truck system.

To transport on a truck or trucks.

To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.

To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects

Convey (goods etc.) by truck;