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Wagon vs. Wain — What's the Difference?

Wagon vs. Wain — What's the Difference?

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Wagon

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.

Wain

The Big Dipper.

Wagon

A vehicle used for transporting goods or another specified purpose
A breakdown wagon
A timber wagon

Wain

A large open farm wagon.

Wagon

An unpleasant or disliked woman.
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Wain

A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
"The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

Wagon

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

Wain

To carry.

Wagon

A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.

Wain

A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.

Wagon

A station wagon.

Wain

A chariot.

Wagon

A police patrol wagon.

Wain

English writer (1925-1994)

Wagon

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

Wain

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Wagon

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

Wain

Large open farm wagon

Wagon

Wagon The Big Dipper

Wagon

Chiefly British An open railway freight car.

Wagon

To transport or undergo transportation by wagon.

Wagon

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

Wagon

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.

Wagon

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

Wagon

(slang) transporting]] prisoners

Wagon

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

Wagon

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

Wagon

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

Wagon

(slang) Buttocks.

Wagon

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

Wagon

To travel in a wagon.

Wagon

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

Wagon

A freight car on a railway.

Wagon

A chariot

Wagon

The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

Wagon

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

Wagon

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

Wagon

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

Wagon

Van used by police to transport prisoners

Wagon

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Wagon

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

Wagon

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

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