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WAGGON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

Synonyms:

beach waggon; beach wagon; estate car; station waggon; station wagon; waggon; wagon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("waggon" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Meronyms (parts of "waggon"):

tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waggon"):

shooting brake (another name for a station wagon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

waggon; wagon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("waggon" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Meronyms (parts of "waggon"):

axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)

wagon wheel (a wheel of a wagon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waggon"):

bandwagon (a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band)

cart (a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal)

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))

Credits

 Context examples: 

The frozen particles of ice, brushed from the blades of grass by the wind, and borne across my face; the hard clatter of the horse's hoofs, beating a tune upon the ground; the stiff-tilled soil; the snowdrift, lightly eddying in the chalk-pit as the breeze ruffled it; the smoking team with the waggon of old hay, stopping to breathe on the hill-top, and shaking their bells musically; the whitened slopes and sweeps of Down-land lying against the dark sky, as if they were drawn on a huge slate!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)