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freightwagon

noun

Etymology

From freight + wagon. Compare West Frisian frachtwein (“truck, lorry”), Dutch vrachtwagen (“truck, lorry”), German Frachtwagen, Swedish fraktvagn (“cargo truck”).

  1. derived from *weǵʰ-✻
  2. derived from *wagnaz✻
  3. derived from *wagn✻
  4. derived from *wagan✻
  5. borrowed from wagen
  6. compounded as freightwagon — “freight + wagon”

Definitions

  1. Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or…

    Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.

    • The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!
    • Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.

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