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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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