wagon
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wagon /ˈwaɡən/ (Brit. also waggon)
▶noun
- 1 a vehicle, especially a horse-drawn one, for transporting goods.
■ a light covered horse-drawn vehicle as used by early settlers in North America.
■ chiefly N. Amer. a wheeled cart or hut used as a food stall.
- 2 Brit. a railway freight vehicle.
– phrases
on (or off) the wagon informal abstaining (or not abstaining) from drinking alcohol.
on (or off) the wagon informal abstaining (or not abstaining) from drinking alcohol.
– derivatives
wagonload noun.
wagonload noun.
'wagon' also found in these Oxford entries:
bandwagon
- boxcar
- caboose
- car
- carpenter
- chuck wagon
- circle
- coach
- corf
- crate
- droshky
- flatcar
- free
- gondola
- guard's van
- hayride
- hitch
- hopper
- outspan
- paddy wagon
- prairie schooner
- railcar
- reefer
- station wagon
- stock car
- trek
- wagoner
- wagon-lit
- wagon-roof
- wagon train
- wain
- wainscot
- wainwright
