waggon
waggon
Definition
wag·gon (wag′ən)
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.
