| slovo | definícia |
wagon
(encz) | wagon,nákladní vůz n: Zdeněk Brož |
wagon
(encz) | wagon,povoz n: |
wagon
(encz) | wagon,vagon n: |
Wagon
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wagoning.]
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from
city to city.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, v. i.
To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between
Philadelphia and its suburbs.
[1913 Webster] |
wagon
(wn) | wagon
n 1: any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal
or a tractor [syn: wagon, waggon]
2: van used by police to transport prisoners [syn: police van,
police wagon, paddy wagon, patrol wagon, wagon,
black Maria]
3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
[syn: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain,
Wain, Wagon]
4: a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
[syn: wagon, coaster wagon]
5: a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind
rear seat [syn: beach wagon, station wagon, wagon,
estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
bandwagon
(encz) | bandwagon,módní trend n: Pinobandwagon,populární hnutí n: Pinobandwagon,vůz s kapelou n: cirkusový, z průvodu ap. Pino |
bandwagon effect
(encz) | bandwagon effect,vliv módní tendence [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
chuck wagon
(encz) | chuck wagon, |
coaster wagon
(encz) | coaster wagon, n: |
conestoga wagon
(encz) | Conestoga wagon,vůz dobyvatelů Ameriky Zdeněk Brož |
covered wagon
(encz) | covered wagon,krytý vůz Zdeněk Brožcovered wagon,vůz krytý plachtou Zdeněk Brož |
fall off the wagon
(encz) | fall off the wagon, |
fix your wagon
(encz) | fix your wagon, |
funny wagon
(encz) | funny wagon, n: |
ice wagon
(encz) | ice wagon, n: |
ice-wagon
(encz) | ice-wagon, n: |
milk wagon
(encz) | milk wagon, n: |
milkwagon
(encz) | milkwagon, n: |
off the wagon
(encz) | off the wagon, |
on the bandwagon
(encz) | on the bandwagon, |
on the wagon
(encz) | on the wagon, |
paddy wagon
(encz) | paddy wagon,uzavřený vůz pro přepravu vězňů Petr Prášek |
patrol wagon
(encz) | patrol wagon,hlídkový vůz Clock |
police wagon
(encz) | police wagon, n: |
prairie wagon
(encz) | prairie wagon, n: |
shagging wagon
(encz) | shagging wagon, |
station wagon
(encz) | station wagon,kombi Zdeněk Brož |
tea wagon
(encz) | tea wagon, n: |
wagon tire
(encz) | wagon tire, n: |
wagon train
(encz) | wagon train,karavana vozů n: Jan Wagnerwagon train,kolona povozů n: Jan Wagner |
wagon wheel
(encz) | wagon wheel,kolo vagonu n: J.N. |
wagon-lit
(encz) | wagon-lit,lůžkový vůz n: PetrV |
wagoner
(encz) | wagoner,kočí n: Jan Wagnerwagoner,povozník n: Jan Wagnerwagoner,vozka n: Jan Wagner |
wagons
(encz) | wagons,vagóny n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
wagonwright
(encz) | wagonwright, n: |
water wagon
(encz) | water wagon,cisterna n: PetrV |
welcome wagon
(encz) | welcome wagon, n: |
bandwagon
(gcide) | bandwagon \bandwagon\ n.
1. A popular trend that attracts growing support. "when they
saw how things were going everybody jumped on the
bandwagon."
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. "the
bandwagon led the circus parade"
[WordNet 1.5] |
Battery wagon
(gcide) | Battery \Bat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Batteries. [F. batterie, fr.
battre. See Batter, v. t.]
1. The act of battering or beating.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every
willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of
another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his
person or held by him.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Mil.)
(a) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for
attack or defense.
(b) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
(c) A company or division of artillery, including the
gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the
United States, a battery of flying artillery consists
usually of six guns.
[1913 Webster]
Barbette battery. See Barbette.
Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that
sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a
work.
Battery en ['e]charpe, one that plays obliquely.
Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number of shots
simultaneously or successively without stopping to load.
Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and
materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the
battery.
In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over
a parapet in readiness for firing.
Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until
required to open upon the enemy.
Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to
a position for loading.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Elec.)
(a) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected
that they may be charged and discharged
simultaneously.
(b) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates,
connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which
are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect
is exhibited when wires connected with the two
end-plates are brought together. In {Daniell's
battery}, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in
dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of
zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of
copper. A modification of this is the common {gravity
battery}, so called from the automatic action of the
two fluids, which are separated by their specific
gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal
used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a
porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or
the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is
substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In
Leclanch['e]'s battery, the elements are zinc in a
solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon
surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A
secondary battery is a battery which usually has the
two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in
dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an
electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable
of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to
chemical changes produced by the charging current. A
storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used
for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical
charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work
done by them; an accumulator.
[1913 Webster]
5. A number of similar machines or devices in position; an
apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a
battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive
power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
--Knight.
[1913 Webster]
7. The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and
down.
[1913 Webster]
8. (Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together.
[1913 Webster] |
Beach wagon
(gcide) | Beach \Beach\ (b[=e]ch), n.; pl. Beaches (-[e^]z). [Cf. Sw.
backe hill, Dan. bakke, Icel. bakki hill, bank. Cf. Bank.]
1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
[1913 Webster]
2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the
waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
[1913 Webster]
Beach flea (Zool.), the common name of many species of
amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestid[ae], living
on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas.
Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass ({Ammophila
arundinacea}), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and
seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds
the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the
waves.
Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats.
Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel,
sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of
wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the
coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in
many lake and river regions.
[1913 Webster] |
buck wagon
(gcide) | Buckboard \Buck"board`\, n.
A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame
resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats
placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
[1913 Webster] |
Conestoga wagon
(gcide) | Conestoga wagon \Con`es*to"ga wag`on\ or Conestoga wain
\Con`es*to"ga wain\ [From Conestoga, Pennsylvania.]
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for
traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Forge wagon
(gcide) | Forge \Forge\ (f[=o]rj), n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the
workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber
artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft,
tender. Cf. Fabric.]
1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are
wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace,
or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and
wrought; a smithy.
[1913 Webster]
In the quick forge and working house of thought.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the
ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and
shingling; a shingling mill.
[1913 Webster]
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the
manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
American forge, a forge for the direct production of
wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly
in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
--Raymond.
Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan.
Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a
bloom is converted into puddle bars.
Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a
blackmith's forge and tools.
Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge,
with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
[1913 Webster] |
Goods wagon
(gcide) | Good \Good\, n.
1. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes
success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit,
excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.
[1913 Webster]
There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?
--Ps. iv. 6.
[1913 Webster]
2. Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity;
advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.
[1913 Webster]
The good of the whole community can be promoted only
by advancing the good of each of the members
composing it. --Jay.
[1913 Webster]
3. pl. Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the
singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive
name for almost all personal property as distinguished
from land or real property. --Wharton.
[1913 Webster]
He hath made us spend much good. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Thy lands and goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Unto the state of Venice. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary.
Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.]
Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.]
Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note under Car,
n., 2.
[1913 Webster] |
Lumber wagon
(gcide) | Lumber \Lum"ber\, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the
money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber
room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or
room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See
Lombard.]
1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in
pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
They put all the little plate they had in the
lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
--Lady Murray.
[1913 Webster]
2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky
and useless, or of small value.
[1913 Webster]
3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists,
boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is
smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by
artificial heat. [U.S.]
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other
lumber is kept. [U.S.]
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used
for general farmwork, etc.
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold
as beams or planks having a specified nominal
cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four,
two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
milkwagon
(gcide) | milkwagon \milkwagon\ n.
a wagon for delivering milk.
[WordNet 1.5] |
paddy wagon
(gcide) | paddy wagon \paddy wagon\ n.
An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.
Syn: patrol wagon, Black Maria.
[WordNet 1.5] |
patrol wagon
(gcide) | patrol wagon \patrol wagon\ n.
An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.
Syn: paddy wagon, Black Maria.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Spring wagon
(gcide) | Spring \Spring\, n. [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See
Spring, v. i.]
1. A leap; a bound; a jump.
[1913 Webster]
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its
former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
[1913 Webster]
3. Elastic power or force.
[1913 Webster]
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
4. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough
wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical
purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing
concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other
force.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms
are the spiral spring (Fig. a), the coil spring
(Fig. b), the elliptic spring (Fig. c), the
half-elliptic spring (Fig. d), the volute spring,
the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring,
etc.
[1913 Webster]
5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a
stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a
natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." --Ps.
lxxxvii. 7. "A secret spring of spiritual joy." --Bentley.
"The sacred spring whence right and honor streams." --Sir
J. Davies.
[1913 Webster]
6. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is
produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
[1913 Webster]
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move
The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as:
(a) A race; lineage. [Obs.] --Chapman.
(b) A youth; a springal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
(c) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of
trees; woodland. [Obs.] --Spenser. Milton.
[1913 Webster]
8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively
tune. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
9. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and
grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months
of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of
the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring."
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal
equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer
solstice, about June 21st.
[1913 Webster]
10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first
stage; as, the spring of life. "The spring of the day."
--1 Sam. ix. 26.
[1913 Webster]
O how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
11. (Naut.)
(a) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running
obliquely or transversely.
(b) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so
that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to
lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally
from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon
the wharf to which she is moored.
[1913 Webster]
Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air,
Boiling, etc.
Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of
thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the
inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a
book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank
book) spring up and lie flat.
Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force
by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel.
Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box.
See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n.
Spring beauty.
(a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate
herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty
blossoms, appearing in springtime.
(b) (Zool.) A small, elegant American butterfly ({Erora
laeta}) which appears in spring. The hind wings of
the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of
the female are mostly blue.
Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which
springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required
elasticity.
Spring beetle (Zool.), a snapping beetle; an elater.
Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of
mechanism, in which the spring is contained.
Spring fly (Zool.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it
appears in the spring.
Spring grass (Bot.), vernal grass. See under Vernal.
Spring gun, a firearm discharged by a spring, when this is
trodden upon or is otherwise moved.
Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which
fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame.
Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.
Spring lock, a lock that fastens with a spring.
Spring mattress, a spring bed.
Spring of an arch (Arch.) See Springing line of an arch,
under Springing.
Spring of pork, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is
divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without
the shoulder. [Obs.] --Nares.
Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. --Gayton.
Spring pin (Locomotive Engines), an iron rod fitted between
the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate
the pressure on the axles.
Spring rye, a kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in
distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.
Spring stay (Naut.), a preventer stay, to assist the
regular one. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
Spring tide, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the
new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common
tides. See Tide.
Spring wagon, a wagon in which springs are interposed
between the body and the axles to form elastic supports.
Spring wheat, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in
distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn.
[1913 Webster] Springald
Springal |
Stage wagon
(gcide) | Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), n. [OF. estage, F. ['e]tage, (assumed)
LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf.
Static.]
1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
[1913 Webster]
2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play
be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
[1913 Webster]
3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work,
or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
[1913 Webster]
4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
[1913 Webster]
5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing
dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
[1913 Webster]
Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the
stage. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C.
Sprague.
[1913 Webster]
6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable
affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on
the public stage.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Music and ethereal mirth
Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
--Miton.
[1913 Webster]
7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
[1913 Webster]
8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
[1913 Webster]
9. A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several
portions into which a road or course is marked off; the
distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage
of ten miles.
[1913 Webster]
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
road. --Jeffrey.
[1913 Webster]
He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
horse performing the journey by easy stages.
--Smiles.
[1913 Webster]
10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
[1913 Webster]
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
in the progress of society. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A
parcel sent you by the stage." --Cowper. [Obsolescent]
[1913 Webster]
I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
12. (Biol.) One of several marked phases or periods in the
development and growth of many animals and plants; as,
the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
[1913 Webster]
Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.
Stage carriage, a stagecoach.
Stage door, the actors' and workmen's entrance to a
theater.
Stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is
illuminated.
Stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the stage
of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.
Stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for
conveying passengers or goods.
Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater,
supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or
more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an
aside.
[1913 Webster] |
To cramp the wheels of wagon
(gcide) | Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (kr[a^]mt; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and
contract; to hinder.
[1913 Webster]
The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge
as by ignorance. --Layard.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
[1913 Webster]
3. Hence, to bind together; to unite.
[1913 Webster]
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped
and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
[1913 Webster]
5. To afflict with cramp.
[1913 Webster]
When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford.
[1913 Webster]
To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out
of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be
against the body of the wagon.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster]Wagon \Wag"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wagoning.]
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from
city to city.
[1913 Webster]Wagon \Wag"on\, v. i.
To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between
Philadelphia and its suburbs.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon boiler
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon ceiling
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon master
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon shoe
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon vault
(gcide) | Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF.
voute, volte, F. vo[^u]te, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio,
fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See
Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt a turn, Volute.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling
or canopy.
[1913 Webster]
The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray.
[1913 Webster]
2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, used
for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the
like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
The silent vaults of death. --Sandys.
[1913 Webster]
To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
3. The canopy of heaven; the sky.
[1913 Webster]
That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
4. [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same
word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.] A leap or
bound. Specifically:
(a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard,
or the like.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in
pronunciation.
[1913 Webster]
Barrel vault, Cradle vault, Cylindrical vault, or
Wagon vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel
abutments, and the same section or profile at all points.
It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see {Rampant
vault}, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the
apse of a church.
Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.
Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one
in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one
another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.
Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in
having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted
surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.
Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement
or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
[1913 Webster]Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See Wain.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually
drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight
or merchandise.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the
conveyance of persons and light commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two
g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The
forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however,
etymologically preferable, and in the United States are
almost universally used.
[1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3.
Wagon ceiling (Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed,
arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose
section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more
wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight,
as the supplies of an army, and the like.
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
wagon wheel; a drag.
Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonage
(gcide) | Wagonage \Wag"on*age\, n.
1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
[1913 Webster]
2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.
[1913 Webster]
Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.
--Carlyle.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagoned
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wagoning.]
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from
city to city.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagoner
(gcide) | Wagoner \Wag"on*er\, n.
1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to
drive a wagon.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Astron.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major.
See Ursa major, under Ursa.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonette
(gcide) | Wagonette \Wag`on*ette"\, n.
A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended
along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons
besides the driver.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonful
(gcide) | Wagonful \Wag"on*ful\, n.; pl. Wagonfuls.
As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a
wagonload.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonfuls
(gcide) | Wagonful \Wag"on*ful\, n.; pl. Wagonfuls.
As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a
wagonload.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon-headed
(gcide) | Wagon-headed \Wag"on-head`ed\, a.
Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered
wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U,
thus ?; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagoning
(gcide) | Wagon \Wag"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wagoning.]
To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from
city to city.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonload
(gcide) | Wagonload \Wag"on*load`\, n.
Same as Wagonful.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagon-roofed
(gcide) | Wagon-roofed \Wag"on-roofed`\, a.
Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U;
wagon-headed.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonry
(gcide) | Wagonry \Wag"on*ry\, n.
Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster] |
Wagonwright
(gcide) | Wagonwright \Wag"on*wright`\, n.
One who makes wagons.
[1913 Webster] |
bandwagon
(wn) | bandwagon
n 1: a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they
saw how things were going everybody jumped on the
bandwagon"
2: a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; "the gaudy
bandwagon led the circus parade" |
bandwagon effect
(wn) | bandwagon effect
n 1: the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater
popularity; "in periods of high merger activity there is a
bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage
in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a
bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate" |
battlewagon
(wn) | battlewagon
n 1: large and heavily armoured warship [syn: battleship,
battlewagon] |
beach wagon
(wn) | beach wagon
n 1: a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind
rear seat [syn: beach wagon, station wagon, wagon,
estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon] |
chuck wagon
(wn) | chuck wagon
n 1: a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for
cowboys) |
coaster wagon
(wn) | coaster wagon
n 1: a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
[syn: wagon, coaster wagon] |
conestoga wagon
(wn) | Conestoga wagon
n 1: 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 [syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon,
Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner] |
covered wagon
(wn) | covered wagon
n 1: 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 [syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon,
Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner] |
|