Wagon /(?)/
Wag·on
Wagon
n.
- A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
- A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
- A chariot [Obs.]
- The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. (Astron.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Wagon boiler
- See the Note under Boiler, 3.
- Wagon ceiling
- a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
- Wagon master
- an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like.
- Wagon shoe
- a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag.
- Wagon vault
- See under 1st Vault.
Wagon
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning
- To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
Wagon
v. i.
- To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.