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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wain \Wain\, n. [OE. wain, AS w[ae]gn; akin to D. & G. wagen,
OHG. wagan, Icel. & Sw vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way ????.
See {Way}, {Weigh}, and cf {Wagon}.]
1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods,
produce, etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.
--Jeffrey.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to
the seashore. --Longfellow.
2. A chariot. [Obs.]
{The Wain}. (Astron.) See {Charles's Wain}, in the
Vocabulary.
{Wain rope}, a cart rope. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conestoga wagon \Con`es*to"ga wag`on\ or wain \wain\ [From
Conestoga, Pennsylvania.]
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for
traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wain
n : large open farm wagon
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