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
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.
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.
• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga
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
• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga
Source: Wiktionary
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
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
