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a
: a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting bulky commodities and drawn originally by animals
b
: a lighter typically horse-drawn vehicle for transporting goods or passengers
c
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British
: a railway freight car
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: a low four-wheeled vehicle with an open rectangular body and a retroflex tongue made for the play or use of a child
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: a small wheeled table used for the service of a dining room
the dessert wagon
5
: a delivery truck
a milk wagon
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wagoned; wagoning; wagons
: to travel or transport goods by wagon
: to transport (goods) by wagon
Synonyms
Examples of wagon in a Sentence
Noun
Pioneers crossed the American Midwest in wagons.
He pulled his stuffed animals around in a little red wagon.
Recent Examples on the Web
Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Sources from the period reported him as overconfident in his team's ability to whip any Mexican fighting units, and had even left some of their weapons and ammunition behind in a wagon outside of town.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Outside the operations center, a soldier hitched a small trailer to the back of the land drone, which was a bit bigger than a Radio Flyer wagon, and loaded it with thirty antitank mines.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
His mother, Mary Ellen (Patten) Stafford, had moved to Oklahoma as a child in her family’s covered wagon.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Today, in addition to the General Store, Brie runs a mobile pie wagon delivering her famous homemade pies to food festivals and farmers' markets across the state.
—Michelle Gross, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024
This learning toy features a market wagon that attaches to it or can be pulled with a handle, and removable shape-sorter fruits and veggies (and a credit card!).
—Julie Evans, Parents, 22 Mar. 2024
The model will be available as a sedan and sports wagon in Europe, though there’s no word if the latter will get a U.S. release.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
They can be accessed for between eight and 10 weeks this spring, along with activities on the ranch, including tractor wagon rides, mining for gem stones and a strawberry shack.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2019
Chris Bobek, who lives a couple of blocks south of Harrer, pulled daughter Sophie, 3, in a classic fire-red Radio Flyer wagon up to the complex’s main entrance.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
Other towns have repeatedly fled rivers – Niobrara, Nebraska, hauled its houses by horse and wagon away from flooding in the Missouri River in 1881 and moved again in 1971.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
The farm's dozens of other attractions, from a train and giant jumping pillows to wagon rides to a pumpkin patch, give it almost amusement-park status.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
Noun
Civil rights attorney Carl Douglas, who was a part of Simpson’s defense team, said LAPD leaders often struck a defensive tone in the weeks after the verdict, a familiar circling of the wagons in the face of criticism from outsiders after previous controversial and racist incidents.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Sources from the period reported him as overconfident in his team's ability to whip any Mexican fighting units, and had even left some of their weapons and ammunition behind in a wagon outside of town.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Outside the operations center, a soldier hitched a small trailer to the back of the land drone, which was a bit bigger than a Radio Flyer wagon, and loaded it with thirty antitank mines.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
His mother, Mary Ellen (Patten) Stafford, had moved to Oklahoma as a child in her family’s covered wagon.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Today, in addition to the General Store, Brie runs a mobile pie wagon delivering her famous homemade pies to food festivals and farmers' markets across the state.
—Michelle Gross, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024
This learning toy features a market wagon that attaches to it or can be pulled with a handle, and removable shape-sorter fruits and veggies (and a credit card!).
—Julie Evans, Parents, 22 Mar. 2024
The model will be available as a sedan and sports wagon in Europe, though there’s no word if the latter will get a U.S. release.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
They can be accessed for between eight and 10 weeks this spring, along with activities on the ranch, including tractor wagon rides, mining for gem stones and a strawberry shack.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
Verb
And Buck weaves in the fascinating history of the original Oregon Trail, revealing surprising details about everything from mules to wagon design to the tragedies the original pioneers faced.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2019
Chris Bobek, who lives a couple of blocks south of Harrer, pulled daughter Sophie, 3, in a classic fire-red Radio Flyer wagon up to the complex’s main entrance.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
Other towns have repeatedly fled rivers – Niobrara, Nebraska, hauled its houses by horse and wagon away from flooding in the Missouri River in 1881 and moved again in 1971.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
The farm's dozens of other attractions, from a train and giant jumping pillows to wagon rides to a pumpkin patch, give it almost amusement-park status.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
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“Wagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wagon. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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