wagon
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- Royaume-Uni//ˈwaɡən//
- Royaume-Uni/[ˈwaɡən] ~ [ˈwaɡn̩]/
- États-Unis//ˈwæɡən//
- États-Unis/[ˈwæɡən] ~ [ˈwæɡn̩]/
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
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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.
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' hoofs. The waggon seemed slower than a snail to Frodo.
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A shopping cart.
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A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
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 war, was 372,037,000 tons, of which 299,129,000 tons, or 80.41 per cent., consisting of coal and minerals.
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vieilliTerm of abuse. A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
[…] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.
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argotTerm of abuse. An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
—Don’t know. —She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. / Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. / —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.
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A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
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argotButtocks.
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Variante de toy wagonAbbreviation 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.
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-oats carton salvaged from the kitchen, a knocked together wooden wagon set on cast-off baby buggy wheels, or a gaudy heavy plastic gm set of Chinese manufacture.
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Variante de dinner wagonEllipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
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.
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Variante de paddy wagonargotEllipsis 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.
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Variante de station wagonfamilierEllipsis 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 privacy was being invaded by binoculars and telephoto lenses in the hands of a slob like Thigpen.
Étymologie
Borrowed 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.
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To 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 carried to he furnace.
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 to these points, and others on the streams mentioned, and taken down the Susquehanna.
Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.
But then he learned about the junk man who brought newspapers, bottles, magazines and metal. So he made the neighborhood rounds collecting these items and then wagonned them down town to the junk yard.
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To 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 necessarily incurred by staging and wagoning across the breach in the line.
“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 built a log cabin and spent the winter.
Formes
- pluriel
- wagons
- passé
- wagoned, wagonned
- participe passé
- wagoned, wagonned
- participe présent
- wagoning, wagonning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- wagons
wagon · A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
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