Wagon
A wagon ('waggon' in British and Commonwealth English) is a heavy four-wheeled horse drawn vehicle pulled by draught animals; it was formerly often called a wain, and if low and sideless may be called a dray, trolley or float. Wagons are used for transporting goods, agricultural materials or sometimes people.
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Famous quotes containing the word wagon:
“The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Heres to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that its caused me.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay
For me, says Jane.”
—Walter De La Mare (18731956)
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