Wagon — Defs

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

1.
A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
2.
A freight car on a railway.[Eng.]
3.
A chariot[Obs.]
4.
The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.(Astron.)

Phrases & compounds

Wagon boiler — See the Note under Boiler, 3.

Wagon ceiling — 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 — See under 1st Vault.

02 v. t. To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning

1.
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

03 v. i. To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

1.
To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.