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wain


  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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