WAGGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waggon mean? 

• WAGGON (noun)
  The noun WAGGON has 2 senses:

1. any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

2. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

  Familiarity information: WAGGON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAGGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

waggon; wagon

Hypernyms ("waggon" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Meronyms (parts of "waggon"):

axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)

wagon wheel (a wheel of a wagon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waggon"):

bandwagon (a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band)

cart (a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal)

chuck wagon (a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys))

Conestoga; Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie schooner; prairie wagon (a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century)

ice-wagon; ice wagon ((formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door)

lorry (a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides)

milk wagon; milkwagon (wagon for delivering milk)

tram; tramcar (a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine)

wain (large open farm wagon)

water waggon; water wagon (a wagon that carries water (as for troops or work gangs or to sprinkle down dusty dirt roads in the summertime))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

beach waggon; beach wagon; estate car; station waggon; station wagon; waggon; wagon

Hypernyms ("waggon" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Meronyms (parts of "waggon"):

tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waggon"):

shooting brake (another name for a station wagon)

 Context examples 

A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We were taking the hill at a quiet trot, but even so, we made the carrier, walking in the shadow of his huge, broad-wheeled, canvas-covered waggon, stare at us in amazement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in the northern woods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We could see a long white ribbon of it, all dotted with carts and waggons coming from Croydon to Redhill, but there was no sign of the big red four-in-hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All next day, he was occupied in disposing of his fishing-boat and tackle; in packing up, and sending to London by waggon, such of his little domestic possessions as he thought would be useful to him; and in parting with the rest, or bestowing them on Mrs. Gummidge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Young as I was, I knew that it was here, in the forest of merchant shipping, in the bales which swung up to the warehouse windows, in the loaded waggons which roared over the cobblestones, that the power of Britain lay.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt it rather hard, I must own, to be made, without deserving it, the subject of jokes between the coachman and guard as to the coach drawing heavy behind, on account of my sitting there, and as to the greater expediency of my travelling by waggon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had raced over Crawley Down and into the broad main street of Crawley village, flying between two country waggons in a way which showed me that even now a driver might do something on the road.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)