Wagon vs. Wain — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wagon and Wain
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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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