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What (who) is Wagon - definition

FOUR WHEELED VEHICLE (MOSTLY PULLED BY DRAUGHT ANIMALS)
Wain; Waggon; Wagons; Trap door forage wagon; Wain ropes; Freight wagon; Wagon (vehicle); Circus wagon; Horse-drawn wagon; Delivery wagon; Farm wagon; Trap Door Forage Wagon; Waggons; Nomadic wagons; Nomadic wagon; Water wagon; Wagton; Beach wagon
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wagon         
n.
1) a station wagon (AE; BE has estate car)
2) a tea wagon (AE; BE has tea trolley)
3) (esp. AE) a paddy, patrol wagon
4) (AE) a welcome wagon ('a car sent with gifts from local merchants to a family that has just moved into a neighborhood')
5) a Conestoga; covered wagon
6) a goods wagon (BE; AE has freight car)
7) (colloq.) (AE) a chuck ('food') wagon (on a ranch)
8) (misc.) on the wagon ('pledged not to drink alcoholic beverages')
wagon         
(wagons)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'waggon'
1.
A wagon is a strong vehicle with four wheels, usually pulled by horses or oxen and used for carrying heavy loads.
= cart
N-COUNT
2.
A wagon is a large container on wheels which is pulled by a train. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use freight car
)
N-COUNT
3.
Someone who is on the wagon has stopped drinking alcohol. (INFORMAL)
I'm on the wagon for a while. Cleaning out my system.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
4.
see also station wagon
Wagon         
·noun A chariot.
II. Wagon ·noun A freight car on a railway.
III. Wagon ·noun The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
IV. Wagon ·vt To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
V. Wagon ·vi To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.
VI. Wagon ·noun A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

Wikipedia

Wagon

A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.

Wagons are immediately distinguished from carts (which have two wheels) and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles primarily for carrying people, such as carriages. Animals such as horses, mules, or oxen usually pull wagons. One animal or several, often in pairs or teams may pull wagons. However, there are examples of human-propelled wagons, such as mining corfs.

A wagon was formerly called a wain and one who builds or repairs wagons is a wainwright. More specifically, a wain is a type of horse- or oxen-drawn, load-carrying vehicle, used for agricultural purposes rather than transporting people. A wagon or cart, usually four-wheeled; for example, a haywain, normally has four wheels, but the term has now acquired slightly poetical connotations, so is not always used with technical correctness. However, a two-wheeled "haywain" would be a hay cart, as opposed to a carriage. Wain is also an archaic term for a chariot. Wain can also be a verb, to carry or deliver, and has other meanings.

Contemporary or modern animal-drawn wagons may be of metal instead of wood and have regular wheels with rubber tires instead of traditional wagon wheels.

A person who drives wagons is called a "wagoner", a "teamster", a "bullocky" (Australia), a "muleteer", or simply a "driver".

Examples of use of Wagon
1. Here‘s why: I fell off the wagon, the cigarette wagon.
2. You‘re on the wagon, you‘re off the wagon.‘ It‘s always been with me.
3. Grimshaw said the G–Wagon performed to expectations.
4. Top soundtrack tunes include the ‘Potato‘s in the Paddy Wagon‘.
5. They recalled playing in the yard with a toy wagon.