/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/, /ˈwæɡən/, /ˈwæːɡən/
OriginBorrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh.
Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
The verb is derived from the noun.
- A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
“These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.”
“The first waggon was loaded, and moved a few yards along the quay, and the second took its place. There was an order and swiftness over the work that told of a careful preparation. The third waggon to”
“It was five miles or more from Maggot's lane to the Ferry. The hobbits wrapped themselves up, but their ears were strained for any sound above the creak of the wheels and the slow clop of the ponies' ”
- abbreviation, alt-ofAbbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
“[…] [Debra] Van Ausdale transcribes an exchange among two white girls (both aged four) and one Asian girl (age three) who are playing with a wagon. One of the white girls is pulling the other children”
“In all placs and ages children have played with things, some found by children, some fabricated by them, and some provided by parents or other adults. Today these might include a just-emptied rolled-o”
- New-England, USA shopping cart.
- A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
“Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels ”
“The total weight of goods and minerals loaded into wagons on the railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1913, the last complete period of working under normal conditions before the outbreak of”
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
“With the important exception of religious myths, the hybridized and grafted Marxist myths are like whole-dessert wagons with almost everybody's favorite sweets—all of them with no calories (costs) and”
“The waiters wore red jackets with black lapels, in summer white jackets with green lapels. There was a roast beef wagon. A pastry section in the huge kitchen.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slangEllipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
“I began as a patrol officer, working the wagon, squad car, and three-wheelers until 1963, when I took the detective exam.”
“I changed into civies and took the two prisoners along with their fingerprints in a patrol wagon along with PTL. Howell of the Sixty-First and a Sixtieth Precinct officer. […] Sometime during the trip”
- Australia, Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-ofEllipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”); (occasionally, loosely) any car, van, or light truck.
“The woman had been photographed in the driver's seat of a late-model Jeep wagon; walking across what appeared to be a large parking lot; inside her kitchen and her bedroom, blissfully unaware that her”
- A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
- slangButtocks.
- US, transitiveTo load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
“The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and car”
“Bar iron, of the first quality; pig metal and castings, of various denominations; wheat in large quantities; other grain, whiskey, gin, clover-seed, flax-seed, beeswax, butter et cetera, are wagoned t”
“Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.”
- US, intransitiveTo travel in a wagon.
“[T]he toll was taken off freight on ninety miles of the canal between Huntingdon and Duncan's Island, and subsequently off passengers, to enable the companies to meet the unexpected and heavy expense ”
““I remember well the stories my great aunt told me in the late 1940’s. / “The stories of my great-grandfather who wagonned with his family from Gravenhurst, Ontario, to Nipissing Village where he buil”
- 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.
Formswagons(plural) · waggon(alternative, UK) · wagons(present, singular, third-person) · wagoning(participle, present) · wagonning(participle, present, rare) · wagoned(participle, past) · wagoned(past) · wagonned(participle, past, rare) · wagonned(past, rare) · the Wagon(canonical) · Waggon(alternative)