wagon

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.

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.abbreviationalt-of

• […] [Debra] Van Ausdale transcribes an exchange among two white girls (both aged four) and one Asian girl (age three) who are playing with a wagon. One of the white girls is pulling the other children. When the wagon gets stuck the Asian gi
• In all placs and ages children have played with things, some found by children, some fabricated by them, and some provided by parents or other adults. Today these might include a just-emptied rolled-oats carton salvaged from the kitchen, a

A shopping cart.New-EnglandUS

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

• Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but prac
• The total weight of goods and minerals loaded into wagons on the railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1913, the last complete period of working under normal conditions before the outbreak of war, was 372,037,000 tons, of which 299

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”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

• 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.

Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

• I began as a patrol officer, working the wagon, squad car, and three-wheelers until 1963, when I took the detective exam.

Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”); (occasionally, loosely) any car, van, or light truck.AustraliaCanadaUS

• The woman had been photographed in the driver's seat of a late-model Jeep wagon; walking across what appeared to be a large parking lot; inside her kitchen and her bedroom, blissfully unaware that her privacy was being invaded by binoculars

Term of abuse.; A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.Irelanddatedderogatory

• […] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.

Term of abuse.; An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.Irelandbroadlyderogatory

• —Don’t know. —She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. / Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. / —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
• Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.

A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

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

• The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.
• Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.

To travel in a wagon.USintransitive

• “I remember well the stories my great aunt told me in the late 1940’s. / “The stories of my great-grandfather who wagonned with his family from Gravenhurst, Ontario, to Nipissing Village where he built a log cabin and spent the winter.