Definition of wagonnext
as in cart
a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling harness the horses up to the wagon so I can bring in the hay

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Recent Examples of wagon There isn’t much better than a minivan or a wagon in Grasso’s Garage, and this was no different. Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026 Kids and parents can go on wagon rides, fish or take a look through a 1900s one-room schoolhouse similar. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026 Family Fun At Aamodt's Apple Farm on the southwest edge of Stillwater, kids love the seasonal goat farm, pedal tractors, hay wagon rides, and a hay bale maze. Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 2 Apr. 2026 The Ottomans deployed field artillery and Janissary infantry armed with matchlocks in a defensive formation called tabur jangi, in which carts and wagons were used to build barricades on the battlefield. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wagon
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cart
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  • Now, dogs are on line at the city’s coffee shops, in carts at Trader Joe’s, seated at the movies.
    Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Robbie Saenz de Viteri, the project’s co-creator, came into the visitor center, wheeling a library cart laden with a blinking soundboard.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

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“Wagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wagon. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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