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waggon Definition

wag·gon (wagən)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb

waggon Usage Examples

Possessives

  • farmer: Wheat is also brought in by the railroad but most is brought in by the farmer's wagons.

Converse of object

  • load: I then perceived that these people were peasants, who were loading two wagons with empty wine- casks.
  • draw: Johnstone was engaged taking loaded wagons drawn by a horse from the pit to the colliery siding.
  • pass: On each side of the canal arm are doors through which railroad wagons passed to be unloaded.
  • drive: I was paid by day's wages and when underground my employment was in wheeling barrows and driving wagons.
  • see: The reporter waxed lyrical; " At morning and evening you may hear and see train wagons thundering along through these handsome sheds.
  • take: Johnstone was engaged taking loaded wagons drawn by a horse from the pit to the colliery siding.

Adjective modifier

  • loaded: We had only two loaded wagons on just then; the other six were coming down the inclined plane.
  • empty: Martin had been engaged in the braking of empty wagons adjacent to the colliery " scree.
  • more: MORE Wagons There are a small number of wagons resident on the railroad.
  • new: This is a form letter sent out to dealers telling of the new pneumatic tires wagons.

Modifies a noun

  • load: A wagon load of lime for 5 or 6 horses, 15 barrels, each 1?
  • wheel: They carried the rope to the cave in a large coil, rolling it along down the passage like a wagon wheel.
  • roof: All Saints' church is Norman and has the original buttresses with a wagon roof in the nave.

Noun used with modifier

  • ambulance: Both of these men, after little delay, were removed in the ambulance wagon to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
  • coal: It is thought she was delivered new to Meaford Power Station to shunt coal wagons.
  • railroad: On each side of the canal arm are doors through which railroad wagons passed to be unloaded.
  • steam: One of only two known photographs showing a Sentinel S6 steam wagon in action.
  • fire: But without anyone foreseeing it, the days of the red fire wagon and with it the use of horse were soon to end.
  • band: She drove twelve spotted horses yoked to the high band wagon of a road circus.
waggon Quotes

Hitch your wagon to a star.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

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