Wagon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wagon	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Wagon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wagon n any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor Synonym(s): wagon, waggon van used by police to transport prisoners Synonym(s): police van, police wagon, paddy wagon, patrol wagon, wagon, black Maria a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major Synonym(s): Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting Synonym(s): wagon, coaster wagon a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat Synonym(s): beach wagon, station wagon, wagon, estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. vo[96]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}.] 1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. [bd]Charnel vaults.[b8] --Milton. The silent vaults of death. --Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift. 3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak. 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. Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. {Barrel}, {Cradle}, {Cylindrical}, [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wagon \Wag"on\, v. i. To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wagon \Wag"on\, n. [D. wagen. [root]136. See {Wain}.] 1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities. 2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.] 3. A chariot [Obs.] --Spenser. 4. (Astron.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. 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. {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}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Wagon Heb. aghalah; so rendered in Gen. 45:19, 21, 27; 46:5; Num. 7:3, 7,8, but elsewhere rendered "cart" (1 Sam. 6:7, etc.). This vehicle was used for peaceful purposes. In Ezek. 23:24, however, it is the rendering of a different Hebrew word, and denotes a war-chariot.