wagon
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
- Abbreviation 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.
- A shopping cart.
- A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
- Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
- Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
- Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
- Term of abuse: A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
- Term of abuse: An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
- A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
- Buttocks.
Verb
- To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
- To travel in a wagon.
Proper noun
- A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
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