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wagon

/ˈwæɡən/ noun B1
  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
  2. A shopping cart. (US)
  3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
  4. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  5. Buttocks. (slang)

Plural wagons

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Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 1 · B2
A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
Each fish was brought over in a cask—one filled with river herbs and weeds, the other with rushes and lake plants; they were placed in a wagon built on purpose, and thus the sterlet lived twelve days, the lamprey eight, and both were alive when my cook seized them, killing one with milk and the other with wine.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 667 · C1
It was a kind of covered wagon, painted black, and was one of the first to arrive.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 751 · C1

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