WAGON

wagon, waggon

(noun) any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

wagon, coaster wagon

(noun) a child’s four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. [from late 15th c.]

A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.

An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.

An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.

Short for dinner wagon.

(slang) Short for paddy wagon.

(rail transport) A freight car on a railway.

Synonym: goods wagon (Britain)

(chiefly, Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon; (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.

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

Synonym: Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

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

Verb

wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)

(transitive, chiefly, US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.

(intransitive, chiefly, US) To travel in a wagon.

Anagrams

• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga

Etymology

Proper noun

the Wagon

(constellation) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

Synonyms: Big Dipper (especially US), Plough (especially UK), Charles' Wain (archaic, UK), Drinking Gourd (obsolete, US), Northern Ladle (Asia), Northern Waggoner (obsolete), Wain (obsolete, UK), Great Wagon, Bandwagon, Saptarishi, Saucepan, triones

Anagrams

• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga

Source: Wiktionary

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Wag"on, n. Etym: [D. wagen. sq. root136. See Wain.]

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

Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities.

2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]

3. A chariot [Obs.] Spenser.

4. (Astron.)

Definition: The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.

– Wagon ceiling (Arch.), 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. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.

Wag"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning.]

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

Wag"on, v. i.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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