wagon - Definition | Dictionary definition of wagon

Definition of wagon

any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

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a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; cart
a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal; dogcart
a cart drawn by a dog; dumpcart
a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling; horse cart, horse-cart
heavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work; jaunting car, jaunty car
an open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland; jinrikisha, ricksha, rickshaw
a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person; oxcart
a cart that is drawn by an ox; donkey cart, pony cart, ponycart, tub-cart
a cart with an underslung axle and two seats; water cart
cart with a tank for water (especially with fresh water for sale); chuck wagon
a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys); Conestoga, Conestoga wagon, covered wagon, prairie schooner, prairie wagon
a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century; ice wagon, ice-wagon
(formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door; lorry
a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides; milk wagon, milkwagon
wagon for delivering milk; tram, tramcar
a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; wain
large open farm wagon; water waggon, water wagon
a wagon that carries water (as for troops or work gangs or to sprinkle down dusty dirt roads in the summertime)