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wagonwaggonn.

Brit. /ˈwaɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈwæɡən/
Forms: 1500s wagan(e, waghen, wagen, 1500s–1600s waggen, 1600s waggin, 1500s– waggon, wagon.
Etymology: Early modern English wagan, waghen, < Dutch wagen (formerly also written waghen ) = Old English wægn wain n.1In Dutch (as in German) wagen has always been the most general term for a wheeled vehicle; in the 16th cent. it was adopted into English in this wide sense (see 2 below) as well as in the specific military application (sense 1) learned in the continental wars. The English dictionaries of the 18th cent. have the spelling waggon , except Johnson, who gives wagon without remark, though all his examples have waggon . Todd 1818 prefers wagon for etymological reasons, but says that waggon is the prevailing form. Webster 1828 gives wagon , remarking that ‘the old orthography, waggon , seems to be falling into disuse’. Smart 1836 gives waggon as the current form, and wagon as ‘a disused spelling’. Stormonth 1884 and Cassell 1888 have waggon , wagon ; later dictionaries wagon either alone or in the first place. In Great Britain waggon is still very commonly used; in the U.S. it is rare. The English word has been adopted in French as wagon , vagon /vaɡɔ̃/ in the sense of ‘railway coach or carriage’, a meaning which is now obsolete in English (see quot. 1847 at sense 5b). So also German waggon (pronounced as French).
1.
a. A strong four-wheeled vehicle designed for the transport of heavy goods. In Military use chiefly with qualifying word, as ambulance, ammunition, bread, forge wagon etc., for which see those words.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled)
wainc725
wagon1523
load wagon1659
freighter1885
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. lxii. 84 And whan these lordes sawe none other remedy, they trussed all their harnes in waganes [Fr. en voictures], and retourned to the hoost before Tourney.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xlvjv The Flemmynges..made puruiaunce for wagans, vitaile and other thynges.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dj As, the force which one man hath with the Duche waghen Racke: therwith, to set vp agayne, a mighty waghen laden, being ouerthrowne.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. lvi. 188 The Phrygians invented first the waggon and charriot with foure wheeles [L. vehiculum cum quatuor rotis].
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlv. 19 Take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wiues. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre i. 4 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Theodoricus..went into Italy with all the Goths, putting their Wives and Children in Waggons, and all the Goods they could carry.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 439 The barren plaines Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With Sails and Wind thir canie Waggons light. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 335 And Waggons fraught with Utensils of war. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 Thy well-breath'd Horse..bred to Belgian Waggons . View more context for this quotation
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. Introd. 30 From those Barges they [sc. the coals] are loaded into Carts and Waggons, to be carried to the respective Country Towns.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 32 The numerous waggons, that accompanied them, contained the rich spoils of the enemy.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 302 I shall endeavor to send you some spring and commissariat waggons.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 75 They [the Indians] had dogged it [Captain Bonneville's party] for a time in secret, astonished at the long train of waggons and oxen.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 2 The waggons of a trader generally contain every requisite for a farmer's establishment.
b. transferred. (With capital initial.) The constellation Charles's Wain n.Quot. ?c1510 is from a work translated into English by a Fleming, and contains many Flemish words. The quot. therefore does not prove the existence of the word in English at the date of the book.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major > Charles's Wain
wainc888
Charles's Waina1000
sistersc1425
chariot1555
Triones1594
north car1633
northern car1697
wagon1867
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiijv The northe sayle sterre or pollumarticum, or the waghen called.]
1867 Chamb. Encycl. at Ursa major The common names throughout Europe for these seven stars are ‘the Plough’, ‘Charles's Wain’, ‘the Wagon’.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Waggon and Horses. Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
†2.
a. A carriage of any kind for the conveyance of persons, their luggage, etc. Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun]
carc1320
chara1400
charet?a1400
wagon1542
carry1600
rotan1676
messagerie1777
pillbox1789
bandy1791
Pennsylvania wagon1800
gharry1810
rath1813
vardo1819
rig1831
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 157v Speusippus beeyng ympotente..was carryed in a wagen [L. vehiculo] towarde the schoole called Academia.
1555–6 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 253 One Wagon of tymbre work for Ladies and Gentlewomen of our Prevye Chamber.
1582 in T. Phillips Hist. & Antiq. Shrewsb. (1779) 46 This yeare 1582,..the right honorable Lady Mary Sidney came to thys towne of Salop, in her wagon.
1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Observ. in Wks. (1630) iii. 88/1 I appointed a Waggon ouer night to bee ready by three of the Clocke in the morning.
†b. A war-chariot; = chariot n. 1c. Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > war chariot
charet1535
chariot1581
wagon1591
scythe-chariot1695
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 244 Some cuntreyes make warre in wagons also [L. quædam nationes et curru præliantur].
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 30 Their fight is..with wagons and chariots [L. bigis et curribus].
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. §20. 206 He..sends his Brother Hagis with..a hundred armed waggons to entertaine him. Each waggon had in it foure to fight, and two to guide it.
†c. poetic. = car n.1 1b, chariot n. 1b. Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > chariot
wainc1175
carc1350
chairc1374
chariotc1374
curre1483
wagon1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 And two stately lyons this fine dams gilt wagon haled.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E3v Then to her yron wagon she betakes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. 44 Whilst Phœbus pure In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. ii. 51 Prouide thee two proper palfrays, black as iet, To hale thy vengefull waggon swift away. View more context for this quotation
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 61 The Poët stepping with Phaëton upon the waggon hath noted [etc.].
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 111 The sunne in wagon makes th'horizon cleare.
3. An open four-wheeled vehicle built for carrying hay, corn, etc., consisting of a long body furnished with ‘shelboards’.In the 16th cent. apparently distinguished from wain.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > with movable boards
wagon1573
lowry1865
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14 Horse, oxen, plough, tumbrel, cart, waggen & wain.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 13 There stands my Heybarne, which hath in the vpper roomes my Hey, and beneath, Waynes, Cartes, Carres, Waggons, Coaches, [etc.].
1600 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 226 One wagon and wagon harnesse three plowes [etc.].
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 56 The tow'ring height Of Waggons, and the Cart's unweildy weight. View more context for this quotation
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 57 The Glocestershire waggon is..the best farm-waggon I have seen in the kingdom... The wheels run six inches wider than those of the Yorkshire waggon.
1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) ii. 16 Concealing their arms in waggons of hay.
1862 J. C. Morton Farmer's Cal. (ed. 2) 415 The carrying of our grain crops..is done differently in different districts. In the South the use of the two and three horse waggon is almost universal.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life vi. 115 A waggon..is the pride of the craftsman who builds it, and who is careful to reproduce the exact ‘lines’ which he learned from his master as an apprentice.
4. A covered vehicle for the regular conveyance of commodities and passengers by road. See also post-wagon n. (1677–), stage-wagon (1761–) s.v. stage n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach
posting carriage1556
wagon1615
post-coach1636
stagecoach1658
flying coach1669
stage1671
wagon-coach1675
stage-wagon1681
post-car1694
post-wagon1694
post calash1703
fly1708
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
diligence1742
flying machine1764
machine1769
mail coach1785
dilly1786
mail stage1792
high-flyer1799
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
tally-ho coach1831
mail packeta1837
flying carriage1849
stager1852
mail-hack1909
1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 867/2 In the yeere 1564 Guylliam Boonen, a dutchman,..brought the vse of Coaches into England... And about that time, began long wagons to come in vse, such as now come to London, from Canterbury, Norwich, Ipswich, Glocester, &c. with Passengers, and commodities.
1660 W. Dugdale Diary 13 Mar. in Life (1827) 105 My daughter Lettice went towards London in Coventre Waggon.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 57 I tooke Wagon for Dort.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 75 I went by Wagon..to Dynkirk.
1776 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 157 The two London waggons came in with sixteen and fourteen horses.
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 16 July 354/1 A number of Waggons with Teams are wanted for the public service immediately.
1824 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 2 717 The following evidence..was then set out; that defendant was a common carrier, and that his waggon stopped in the parish of Elden.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xxxvi. 11 She heard the rumbling of heavy wheels behind her, a covered waggon was coming, creeping slowly along.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi An express waggon with a driving seat.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi He is like to turn back..if he journeys with us in the waggon.
5.
a. Mining. A truck used to convey minerals along the roadways of a mine, or from the mine to the place of shipment. (See also quot. 1886.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation
tram1517
wagon1649
rolley1817
buggy1867
barney1874
hod1883
whirley1886
shuttle car1905
manrider1967
scooptram1967
1649 W. Grey Chorographia 25 Waggons with one Horse to carry down Coales, from the Pits, to the Stathes, to the River, &c.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. Introd. 29 [The coals] are then loaded again into a great machine call'd a Waggon, which..goes..to the nearest River or Water-carriage.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) 51 Chaldron 53 cwt. The waggons which convey the coals from the pit to the place of shipment carry the above quantity, and are called chaldron waggons.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 148 Certain requirements, in connection with the raising of the mineral in the shafts..necessitate the use of particular kinds of waggon.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 70 Waggon, a measure of weight equal to 24 cwt. Coal sold for delivery in carts is usually sold by the waggon of 24 cwt.
b. An open truck or a closed van for the transport of goods on a railway. †Formerly applied also to the open carriages used for conveying passengers at the lowest fares, and as the general term for any kind of railway vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > running on wheels
wagon1756
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage
rail wagon1824
railway wagon1824
wagon1825
car1826
railway car1828
railroad car1829
railcar1833
steam-car1833
road car1834
motor car1878
1756 A. Darby Diary 31 Jan. in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1913) 10 83 First Waggon of Pigs [sc. of iron] came down the Railway [in Coalbrookdale].
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 657 The weight of the engine and 16 waggons is equal to 154,560 lbs.
1840 F. Whishaw Railways Great Brit. & Ireland 493 The ordinary train would consist of two wagons, or trucks, of merchandise, &c. placed next to the engine, then the passenger-wagon [3rd class], and lastly the passenger-carriage.
1847 S. C. Brees Railw. Pract. 4th Ser. i. 1 The name of wagon is given to vehicles of every description employed on railways.
1872 A. Helps Life T. Brassey (1878) v. 77 A ‘set’ is a number of wagons—in fact, a train.
6. U.S. A light four-wheeled vehicle used for various business purposes; also, loosely, a similar vehicle used for pleasure. dearborn wagon n. see dearborn n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > light
Germantown1766
dearborn1820
cart1823
wagon1837
springboard1857
runabout1863
buck-wagon1864
beach-wagon1869
buckboard1874
tonga1874
buck-cart1884
jutka1886
runabout wagon1886
1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) v. 34 People soon began to assemble, some on foot, and others on horseback and in waggons.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlv. 81 He had at St. Louis, purchased a very comfortable dearborn waggon.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xvii. 260 Will you take me out in the trotting waggon with Puck?
7. A covered four-wheeled vehicle used as a living house by gypsies, travelling showmen, travellers, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan
cart-house1603
caravan1805
house wagon1833
wagon1851
house trailer1885
caboose1912
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
Dormobile1952
caravette1953
trailer house1954
motor home1961
double-wide1966
static1980
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation
van1829
house wagon1833
living wagon1851
wagon1851
motor-van1898
motor caravan1909
van1922
trailer caravan1930
trailer1931
caravanette1934
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
recreational vehicle1949
van1952
trailer house1954
caravette1958
camper1960
pickup camper1960
motor home1961
caravan1962
cab-over1964
RV1967
manufactured home1976
micro-mini1989
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 329/1 He termed it, as all showmen do—the living wagon.
1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 298 The mess-waggon is always an important feature when an outfit starts on the ‘trail’.
1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 298 During a halt he never left the waggon, but hung around [etc.].
8. U.S. A baby-carriage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > perambulator for child
mail-cart1767
baby carriage1825
carriage1829
go-cart1853
perambulator1853
pushcart1853
bassinet1855
baby buggy1862
buggy1862
gypsy cab1864
baby coach1866
pushcar1867
pram1881
wagon1887
pushchair1893
kiddy car1918
stroller1920
pusher1953
1847 [see wagon-frame n. at Compounds 1a].
1887 J. E. Cabot Mem. Emerson II. 282 The whole town assembled, down to the babies in their wagons.
9.
a. Short for dinner wagon n. at dinner n. Compounds 3. Cf. wagon table n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > tea-trolley
dinner wagon1826
tea-wagon1840
wagon table1844
wagon1906
silent butler1912
tea-trolley1937
1906 C. Mansfield Girl & Gods viii Margaret proceeded to cut the wire of a bottle, and then fetched glasses from a waggon.
b. Short for patrol wagon n. at patrol n. Compounds 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for taking criminals to prison
prison van1829
van1829
felon's van1842
patrol wagon1873
wagon1890
1890 J. P. Quinn Fools of Fortune xii. 404 When a raid is made..enough ‘pluggers’ are captured to fill one or two wagons and are driven to the nearest police station with much clatter and display.
1926 J. Black You can't Win iv. 31 I'll phone for the wagon. We'll have to take them all to the station.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie x. 103 ‘I sent for the wagon,’ said the guy with the pipe. ‘We'll take them over to the third precinct and put them on ice.’
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c. slang. Short for water wagon n. 1a: see on the wagon at sense 11b.
d. Short for station wagon n. 3. Also more gen., a motor car (colloquial).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]
buggy1888
motor vehicle1890
motor carriage1894
autocar1895
jam jar1895
motor car1895
car1896
traction1896
motor1899
bubble1901
machine1901
Lizzie1913
buzz-wagon1914
road car1914
short1914
scooter1917
buzz-box1920
ride1930
drag1935
bus1939
wagon1955
wheels1959
sheen1968
low rider1974
scoot1977
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > estate car
beach-wagon1869
ranch wagon1879
shooting brake1912
sport utility1925
station wagon1929
carryall1932
sports utility1940
ute1943
utility1944
estate car1950
wagon1955
estate wagon1959
SUV1987
1955 M. Allingham Beckoning Lady vi. 90 ‘Is this the wagon?’ Amanda rose to meet the car.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 59 When he was ready to go, the wagon wouldn't start.
1975 ‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xviii. 173 ‘Do you want to take my car, Paul?’..‘The wagon or the sports car?’
10. Bookbinding. ‘A tool having four edges of cane mounted in a frame, and used to trim the edges of gold-leaf to a size for a book’.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
plough1580
fillet1641
roll1656
paper-folder1781
stamp1811
backing-hammer1818
bookstamp1819
lettering tool1833
book cutter1850
roller1852
hand letter1862
pallet1875
wagon1875
stop1880
jigger1883
gouge1885
guinea-edge1890
marbler1890
panel stamp1893
saddle stitcher1944
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
11. Figurative phrases.
a. to hitch one's wagon to a star, to set oneself high aspirations; to aspire to another's admirable example.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > aspire [verb (intransitive)]
aspirec1460
to hitch one's wagon to a star1870
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 27 Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works... Work..for..justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Paintings 22 What you mentally or ‘consciously’ desire is nine times out of ten impossible: hitch your wagon to a star, and you'll just stay where you are.
1939 R. Boothby Let. 27 May in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1976) V. li. 1072 One of the few things in my life of which I am proud is that in all matters of major policy during the past 5 years I have hitched by waggon to your star.
1953 E. Waugh Love among Ruins i. 10 ‘The Minister of Welfare and the Minister of Rest and Culture,’ continued the Chief Guide. ‘The stars to which we have hitched our waggon.’
1978 J. Hyams Pool iv. 44 Overweight and sedentary, he was content to hitch his wagon to David's star.
b. on the wagon: abstaining from alcoholic drink, teetotal. See on the water wagon at water wagon n. 1b originally U.S.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence
water-drinking?1616
hydropotic1623
teetotal1834
teetotalling1839
water wagon1889
on the wagon1906
temperance1907
pussyfoot1919
bone-dry1920
T.T.1922
1906 B. L. Taylor Extra Dry 14 It is better to have been on and off the Wagon than never to have been on at all.
1917 J. M. Grider War Birds (1927) 23 Springs put him on the wagon for a week.
1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xiv. 218 ‘Was he oiled when the accident happened?’ ‘No, he was on the wagon again.’
1951 L. Hellman Autumn Garden iii. 138 A few years ago I'd go on the wagon twice a year. Now..I don't care.
1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy viii. 83 They dug him out of a bar.., stoned out of his mind... He stayed on the wagon for years.
c. to fix (someone's) wagon, to bring about (a person's) downfall, to spoil (his) chances of success. Cf. fix v. 14c. U.S. slang.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] > cause to fail
bringc1175
abort?1548
foil1548
ruin1593
to throw out1821
to put a person's pot on1864
mucker1869
collapse1883
to fix (someone's) wagon1951
1951 T. Capote Grass Harp i. 13 She said her brother would fix my wagon, which he did; right here at the corner of my mouth I've still got a scar where he hit me.
1959 J. D. Salinger in New Yorker 6 June 119/1 What ever became of that stalwart bore Fortinbras? Who eventually fixed his wagon?
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxvii. 322 At least he could fix Merlyn's wagon, Ford was beyond his reach. He tried getting her fixed by organizing a campaign of hate mail from fans.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. Attributive.
wagon-cover n.
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1781 Cal. Virginia State Papers I. 546 A number of wagon-covers, for the protection of military stores.
1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 31 July 1 A great Stock of lately-improved Waggon-Covers.
wagon-frame n.
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1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 190 Awhile to..mend his [sc. a child's] wicker wagon frame.
wagon-hire n.
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1553 in J. W. Burgon Life & Times T. Gresham (1839) I. iii. 141 And to [be] layd upon every waggon iij dry fatts, for the avoyding of the great charge of waggon-hyre.
1776 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 4 118 To George Benner, for waggon-hire.
1813 F. L. Claiborne in Sam Dale (1860) v. 90 Already the two hundred dollars advanced by the quarter-master have been expended for wagon-hire.
wagon-horse n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls wagon
wagon-horse1585
dray-horse1709
swing1869
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 40/2 Iumentum plaustrarium,..a cart horse, or waggon horse.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. ii. 59 A city-bred burgher of Ghent, Liege, or Ypres, is as distinct an animal from a knight of Hainault, as a Flanders waggon horse from a Spanish jennet.
wagon-ox n.
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1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 7 The horns of the waggon-oxen.
wagon-pole n.
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1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 154 It is very common at this time, in several parts of Italy, to cover the end of the waggon-pole with plates of brass.
wagon-rut n.
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1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een wagen-leese, a Wagon-rut.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xv. 154 The new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and waggon-ruts.
wagon-sail n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > cover or tilt
overlay1456
tillet1497
tilt1620
overlayer1811
sail1850
wagon-sail1850
coverture1856
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. vii. 140 These mats are also used instead of waggon-sails, and are very effectual in resisting both sun and rain.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xvi. 419 We have put our waterproof sheets ready on going to bed, and sometimes have spread the waggon-sails over the waggons.
wagon-shed n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wagon-shed, a shelter for carts and wagons.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iv. 51 The daylight revealed the whole of Mr. Melbury's homestead, of which the waggon-sheds had been an out-lying erection.
wagon-spoke n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > spoke
spokec888
wagon-spoke1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 60 Her waggon spokes are made of spinners webs. View more context for this quotation
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 129 Her companion used the reversed pistol-butt against the wagon-spoke and the brass knuckles of the other two.
wagon-spoor n.
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1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 174 On reaching the road, I saw fresh wagon-spoor.
wagon-sprag n.
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1885 Times 31 Oct. 8/3 The railway servants..armed with sticks and wagon ‘spraggs’, then advanced upon the criminals' place of concealment.
wagon-tilt n.
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1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) vii. 90 The lower ends of ash poles cut from six to eighteen feet long... They are cleft for the use of the cooper, waggon-tilts, &c.
wagon-tongue n.
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1845 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. (1847) 18 Our pilot notified us that this would be our last opportunity to procure timber for axle trees, wagon tongues, etc.
1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) xvii The breaking of our waggon-tongue..delayed our journey.
wagon-wheel n.
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1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. ii. 54 I will dismount and by thy waggon wheele, Trotte like a seruile footeman. View more context for this quotation
1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 226 But who dares draw out the linchpin from the waggon-wheel?
wagon whip n.
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1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 324 Their rude drivers..began to debate precedence with their waggon-whips and quarter-staves.
b. Objective and objective genitive.
wagon builder n.
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1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 137 A compleat Wheel right, Waggon builder, and Plow and Hurdle maker.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 4 A captent waggon..requires the hand of a skilful waggon-builder.
wagon driver n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Waggon dryuer, iugarius.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 15 A waggon-driver..a stout active Hottentot.
wagon maker n.
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1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 51 Skinners Sadlers waggen makers.
1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 181 Wagon and carriage makers mainly use parallel iron vices.
wagon making n.
c. Instrumental.
wagon-travelling n.
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1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting viii. 304 The natural concomitants of wagon-travelling.
d. Similative.
wagon-shaped adj.
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1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 742 The kind of boiler attached to this engine is of the waggon-shaped kind.
C2. Special combinations. Also wagon-head n., wagon-load n., wagon-way n.
wagon-bed n. the body of a wagon; (also) the bottom of the body.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > body
buck1673
bedc1700
wagon box1810
buckboard1839
wagon-bed1853
1853 A. S. Knight in Trans. Oregon Pioneer Assoc. (1933) 40 There is no ferry here and the men will have to make one out of the tightest wagon-bed.
1885 Howells in Cent. Mag. Sept. 672/1 In the grassy piazza two men had a humble show of figs and cakes for sale in their wagon-beds.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 179 For though the river was fordable with care, the water came over the waggon-bed.
wagon-boiler n. a form of engine-boiler (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > types of
steam-boiler1805
boiler1818
generator1823
wagon-boiler1837
Cornish boiler1840
saddle boiler1840
French boiler1844
vomiting-boiler1844
water-tube boiler1850
feed-heater1864
Scotch boiler1877
cross-tubea1884
steamer1891
flash generator1903
flash steam generator1907
waste-heat boiler1930
1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 197 Those known by the term of ‘waggon boilers’, from their shape, formed one of the many improvements of the steam engine introduced by Watt.
† wagon-borough n. [ < Dutch or German wagenburg] Obsolete a defensive enclosure or barricade formed of baggage-wagons placed close together.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > laager > [noun]
wagon-borough1548
corral1847
laager1941
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. F 1 b [Fearing a night attack we] entrenched our cariages and waggen-boorowe, had good skout without and sure watch within.
wagon boss n. North American the man in charge of a wagon-train; a wagon-master.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of wagon > man in charge of wagons
freighter1852
wagon-master1861
wagon boss1873
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 98 Our ‘wagon-boss’, absolute monarch of a train while on the road, rejoiced in the name of John Monkins.
1973 R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led i. vi. 92 The wagon boss is an important man. You don't talk to him, but when he talks to you, you keep your ears clean.
wagon-bow n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > cover or tilt > bow
wagon-bow1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-bow, an arched-shaped slat with its ends planted in staples on the wagon-bed sides. Used to elevate the tilt or cover.
wagon box n. (a) U.S. the body of a wagon; a wagon-bed; (b) a large storage chest, usually kept under the front seat of a wagon (also used as an article of domestic furniture).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > other types of
foot-gang1530
lobby chest1803
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
bahut1840
Wellington chest1880
tansu1885
mule chest1911
Wellington1936
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > storage under seat
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > body
buck1673
bedc1700
wagon box1810
buckboard1839
wagon-bed1853
1810 in E. C. Barker Austin Papers (1924) I. i. 168 13 Wagon Boxes.
1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 94/2 Waggon boxes and hollow ware of all kinds.
1850 L. Sawyer Way Sketches 30 We have found no wood since we struck the Platte, except fragments of wagon boxes..brought..by emigrants who have preceded us.
1852 M. B. Hudson S. Afr. Frontier Life I. 206 We come to a door's been off a long while, Near to which stands a wagon-box sacred to books.
1853 V. Williams in Trans. Oregon Pioneer Assoc. (1922) 196 A number of other wagon boxes have been ripped for skiffs and ply singly.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xx. 327 The boy climbed out of the rear of the wagon-box and begged to go with them.
1888 C. D. Ferguson Experiences of Forty-niner 63 A wagon box, well corked and pitched so as to be water tight, was launched.
a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 39 In the wagon boxes we carried our supply of food and extra clothing.
1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 250 The camp was devastated by a tornado that carried wagon boxes, camp equipage, and some of the people through the air.
1969 N. W. Parsons Upon Sagebrush Harp i. 2 The double wagon box on the stoneboat was our own, and it was full of our household goods.
wagon-breast n. U.S. a breast or working place in a coal-mine in which the wagons are taken up to the working face.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine
work1474
firework1606
stemple1653
stool1653
bink1675
engine pit1687
swamp1691
feeder1702
wall1728
bag1742
sill1747
stope1747
rose cistern1778
striking-house1824
plat1828
stemplar1828
screen chamber1829
offtake1835
footwall1837
triple pit1839
stamp1849
paddock1852
working floor1858
pit house1866
ground-sluice1869
screen tower1871
planilla1877
undercurrent1877
mill1878
blanket-sluice1881
stringing-deal1881
wagon-breast1881
brushing-bed1883
poppet-leg1890
slippet1898
stable1906
overcut1940
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 190 Wagon-breast. A breast into which wagons can be taken.
wagon-ceiling n. Architecture (see quot.).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > ceiling > [noun] > types of
lacec1330
plancher1561
concameration1644
fasciaa1652
laqueary1656
cant-ceiling1688
laquear1706
string-piece1789
coved ceiling1796
concha1832
false ceiling1870
wagon-ceiling1875
suspended ceiling1933
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 475/2 Waggon-Ceiling, a boarded roof of the Tudor time, either of semicircular or polygonal section. It is boarded with thin oak, and ornamented with mouldings forming panels, and with loops at the intersections.
wagon chest n. = wagon box n. (b).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > other types of
foot-gang1530
lobby chest1803
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
bahut1840
Wellington chest1880
tansu1885
mule chest1911
Wellington1936
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > storage under seat
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
1827 G. Thompson Trav. S. Afr. ii. i. 325 A couple of waggon-chests.
1968 S. Stander Horse 75 He sat on the wagon-chest.
† wagon-coach n. Obsolete = post-wagon n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach
posting carriage1556
wagon1615
post-coach1636
stagecoach1658
flying coach1669
stage1671
wagon-coach1675
stage-wagon1681
post-car1694
post-wagon1694
post calash1703
fly1708
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
diligence1742
flying machine1764
machine1769
mail coach1785
dilly1786
mail stage1792
high-flyer1799
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
tally-ho coach1831
mail packeta1837
flying carriage1849
stager1852
mail-hack1909
1675 London Gaz. No. 1047/4 Lost..out of the Waggon-Coach, passing from Hertford to London, a Letter.
a1680 Lady Fanshawe in Lady Halkett & Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1979) 139 We hired a waggon coach, for ther' is no other at Callais.
wagon-corps n. Military = Corps of Wagoners at wagoner n.1 1a.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > administration and supply branches
baggage1603
field train1692
Corps of Wagoners1802
wagon-corps1810
subsistence department1820
baggage-train1841
rear echelon1852
Control Department1867
Army Service Corps1869
A.S.C.1871
pay corps1876
Q1916
echelon1922
1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. Corps of Wagoners, or royal Wagon corps.
1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited ix. 279 The Austrian waggon corps.
wagon-coupling n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > coupling
shackle1343
wain-shackle1559
head block1851
wagon-coupling1875
thill-coupling1877
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-coupling, one for attaching the hind axle to the fore.
wagon-drag n. a shoebrake for a wagon.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > skid or lock to retard motion
trigger1591
drug1638
trigen1659
skid1766
drag1795
remskoen1816
slipper1827
shoe1837
sledge1839
hub1856
rough lock1858
spoke1858
wagon-drag1875
wagon-lock1875
wheel-lock1875
sprag1878
slipper-drag1883
slipper-brake1884
shod1893
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-drag.
wagon-drift n. South African a passage for wagons across a river.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place
passing placea1540
going-over1650
fordage1728
passing1825
fording1833
wagon-drift1850
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxx. 284 We held thither at a sharp trot, holding for the old waggon drift.
wagon-gallery n. a gallery in a mine along which the wagons run.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for conveying coal, etc.
pithead1662
wagon-way1727
wagon-gallery1839
jig1866
up-brow1867
jig-brow1877
jinny-road1877
plane1877
chain road1883
loader gate1964
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 853 The ores are raised in these shafts to the level of the waggon-gallery (galerie de roulage) by the whims provided with ropes and buckets.
wagon-hammer n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > swingle-tree > parts or attachments of
roller bolt1796
wagon-hammer1875
tree-coupling1877
tree-iron1877
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-hammer, the vertical bolt which connects the double-tree to the tongue, and upon which the double-tree swings.
wagon-house n. a house, shed or shelter for wagons.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > cart- or coach house
cart-house1483
wain-house1569
wagon-house1648
coach-house1679
remise1698
chaise-house1812
carriage house1883
cart-lodge1888
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een wagen-huys, a wagon-house.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 i. 79/2 He..made him up a bed of straw in the waggon, under the waggon-house.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iii. 33 This erection was the waggon-house of the chief man of business.
† wagon-hunter n. Cant Obsolete an agent of a brothel keeper who for base purposes visited the inns at which the stage-wagons stopped.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp > visiting stagecoach inns
wagon-hunterc1766
c1766 Cheats of London Exposed 46 Waggon-hunters.
wagon-jack n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > jacks
screw1404
scalet1640
German devil1670
Jack1679
screw jack1719
spring-jack1724
jackscrew?1735
crick1775
fence-jack1874
swing-jack1875
wagon-jack1875
windlass-jack1875
truck-jack1877
setter1895
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-jack, one for lifting the wheels of a wagon clear of the ground.
wagon-lock n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > skid or lock to retard motion
trigger1591
drug1638
trigen1659
skid1766
drag1795
remskoen1816
slipper1827
shoe1837
sledge1839
hub1856
rough lock1858
spoke1858
wagon-drag1875
wagon-lock1875
wheel-lock1875
sprag1878
slipper-drag1883
slipper-brake1884
shod1893
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-lock, a device to bring a friction on the wheels of a wagon to retard its motion in descending hills.
wagon-man n. the driver of a wagon, a wagoner.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of wagon
wainman1392
wainera1500
wagoner1544
wagon-man1589
1589 M. Philips in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 577 The wagon man that had charge of me set an Indian carpenter a worke to mend the wheele.
1764 London Mag. Mar. 144/2 What the waggon-men call a bye-way, made for the unloaded waggons to be drawn to the pitts.
wagon-master n. a person who has charge of one or more wagons; spec. (Military) an officer commanding the wagon-train.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > wagon-master
carriage master1570
wagon-master1645
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of wagon > man in charge of wagons
freighter1852
wagon-master1861
wagon boss1873
1645 in Papers rel. Army Solemn League & Cov. (S.H.S.) II. 502 Waggonmrs of the Army.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 163/2 Wagonmaster generall 10 s. per diem.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 164/1 The Waggon maister 5 s. Waggoners each 2 s.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 492 The commissary used to act as wagon-master.
1775 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 3 329 There is due to Robert Erwin, waggon master, the sum of 169 pounds.
1847 in W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconnaissance 546 Our successful passage over was entirely due to the perseverance and good management of the wagon-master.
1861 U.S. Army Regul. 149 No wagon-master or forage-master shall be interested..in any wagon or other means of transport employed by the United States.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1- c/5 Actor John MacIntire, known as wagonmaster on the television program, ‘Wagon Train’.
wagon-road n. a road for the passage of wagons; spec. in Coal Mining, a prepared road or railway for the haulage of wagons.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts
cart-way1362
wain-way1579
cart-gate1594
wain-gate1596
cart-road1607
wagon-road1748
wagon-way1764
1748 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Sept. 4/1 (advt.) At the other end of the brew-house there is a large waggon road.
1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 58 A white butterfly follows along the waggon-road.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 371 Assisting the pioneers to make the waggon road.
wagon-roof n. = wagon-vault n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xi. 151 The low wagon-roofs of the cross-naves.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West I. ii. 35 In a good many cases the waggon roofs are but ceiled cradle roofs.
wagon table n. (see quot. and sense 9 above).
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > tea-trolley
dinner wagon1826
tea-wagon1840
wagon table1844
wagon1906
silent butler1912
tea-trolley1937
1844 T. Webster & F. Parkes Encycl. Domest. Econ. 240 Moving sideboards, or waggon tables.
wagon-tent n. South African the tent-like canopy of a covered wagon.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > covered
covered wagon1745
wagon-tent1845
1845 Cape of Good Hope Almanac (advt.) Country people can be supplied with..3-inch Canvas for wagontents.
1926 P. Smith Beadle 59 The women wore stiffly starched plain white sun-bonnets, like miniature wagon-tents.
1955 W. Robertson Blue Wagon viii. 72 I was in the wagon-tent when those kaffirs came.
wagon-tipper n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > tilting device
wagon-tipper1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wagon-tipper, a device for tilting a wagon in order to dump its load.
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wagon-top n. the part of a locomotive-boiler, over the fire-box, which is elevated above the rest of the shell to provide greater steam-room ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
wagon-track n. the track made by the passage of wagons.
ΚΠ
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xx. 76 The larger of these caves is situated on the west side of the waggon-track.
1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 57 Leverets play in the waggon-track.
wagon-train n. Military a train, collection, or service of transport wagons; also, a train of wagons used by colonial settlers.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > train of
wagon-train1810
wagonage1864
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 302 I shall endeavor to send you..some horses and drivers belonging to the waggon train.
1888 J. C. Harris Free Joe 181 For years and years before the war it had been noted as the meeting-place of the waggon-trains by means of which the planters transported their produce to market.
wagon-tree n. = wagenboom n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > protea or sugar-bush
sugar-tree1705
wagenboom1790
suikerbos1818
sugar-bush1822
wagon-tree1822
Protea1824
blushing bride1917
1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 123 (heading) The Waggon-tree.
wagon-vault n. (see quot. 1892).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 72 Amongst the various forms of vaulted apartments..rectangles are of frequent occurrence, and these for the most part are covered with a waggon vault.
1892 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Waggon roof or vault. A roof, semicircular in section, but somewhat higher than a semicircle or barrel roof, by rising from vertical sides.
wagon-vaulted adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > roofed > in specific manner > specific
coupledc1384
thatched1467
stone-heled1578
slate-hung1648
slate-roofed1648
raftered1670
rafted1739
stob-thatched1792
reeded1819
hip-roofed1821
wagon-vaulted1835
span-roofed1842
saddle-backed1853
thatchy1864
tortoise-roofed1886
mansarded1890
monopitch1961
skillion-roofed1967
1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 68 Waggon-vaulted apartments.
wagon-work n. the construction and repair of wagons.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > wagon- or coach-making
coach-making1615
wagon-work1850
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > making or repair of carts or carriages
coach-making1615
wagon-work1850
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 16 Several coarse chisels for waggon-work.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 378 Wood tough, used chiefly for wagon-work.
wagon-wright n. a maker or repairer of wagons; a wainwright.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > making or repair of carts or carriages > one who
wainwrightc1000
cartwright14..
cart-maker1579
coach-wright1587
coach-maker1599
coach-builder1794
coach-joiner1800
wagon-wright1858
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of wheels or wheeled vehicles
wheelwright1281
cartwright14..
wheeler1497
cart-maker1579
coach-wright1587
coach-maker1599
coach-wheeler1686
coach-builder1794
coach-joiner1800
wainwright1855
wagon-wright1858
wheel-assembler1897
auto worker1901
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wagon-wright, a maker and mender of wagons.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Newcastle Terms) 66 Waggonwright, a man who makes and repairs the chaldron waggons.
wagon-yard n. a depôt for wagons used on a road or railway.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > yard
wagon-yard1827
yard1827
train depot1833
railway yard1854
trainyard1866
marshalling yard1877
rail yard1888
1827 E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle II. 722 A waggon set out for London from the general waggon-yard..every day.

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Originally U.S. off the wagon: (esp. of a habitual drinker) consuming alcohol again after a period of abstinence; no longer sober or abstemious; esp. in to fall off the wagon. Also in extended use, with reference to relapse into any harmful habit. See also water wagon n. 1b.
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1906 B. L. Taylor Extra Dry 14 It is better to have been on and off the Wagon than never to have been on at all.
1911 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 88 I'm considering whether to fall off the wagon with a splash that'll drown Doc Williams.
1935 Esquire Mar. 120/2 He always tumbled off the wagon right when he was needed most. Just one little snort for a bracer, then he was lost.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 10 She hadn't done any serious drugs for three and a half years and all of a sudden..she'd fallen off the wagon.
2017 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 7 Feb. 32 I had expected to be demanding..a glass of chardonnay to salute being off the wagon—but..I wasn't fussed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

wagonwaggonv.

Brit. /ˈwaɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈwæɡən/
Etymology: < wagon n.
1. intransitive. To travel in a wagon; to transport goods by wagon. Chiefly U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in specific type of horse-drawn vehicle
wagon1606
caroche1620
chariot1628
coach1631
to chaise it1792
gig1807
hack1879
buckboard1904
car1907
stolkjaerre1932
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > admit of being transported [verb (intransitive)] > transport by wagon or cart
wagon1828
trant1875
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. D1 She waggoneth to Neptunes Pallace than.
1794 E. Denny Mil. Jrnl. 18 Oct. (1860) 403 The French had opened the Indian path..and wagoned considerably upon it.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wagon, to practice the transportation of goods in a wagon. The man wagons between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
a1904 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ix. 129 It was a hundred miles to wagon from the freight point where we got our supplies.
1907 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Windfall vi. 103 I can't figure out how the lydy managed to stay so stiff and starched these seven miles and more, waggoning down from the mountain.
2. transitive. To put into a wagon for conveyance.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > load cart or wagon
wagon1649
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour i. i. 1/2 Is all our pillage waggond?
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour i. i. 3/1 See him well waggond, and provide A surgeon to attend his cure.
1795 Sporting Mag. 5 35 Our party..bagged, or rather waggoned 876 hares.
1812 J. Flaxman Let. W. Hayley 20 Feb. in Pearson's Catal. (1886) No. 60 Resignation is at length in, waggoned for Feltham.
3. U.S. To transport (goods) in a wagon or by means of a train of wagons. Also with up.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wagon or cart
wagon1755
jag1847–78
1755 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 187 The quantity is too great for the present consumption, and to wagon it up can never answer the expense.
1779 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 216 They have bought quantities of flour for these troops in Cumberland, have ordered it to be wagoned down to Manchester, and wagoned thence up to the barracks.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 43 The ore is first waggoned to the river.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States v. 321 Sometimes they had had to buy corn at a dollar a bushel, and wagon it home from Raleigh.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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