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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh. Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse. The verb is derived from the noun.

derived from *weǵʰ-✻
derived from *wagnaz✻
derived from *wagn✻
derived from *wagan✻
borrowed from wagen

Definitions

1
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or…
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
- These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.
Abbreviation of toy wagon
Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
A shopping cart.
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1. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
2. 5
  Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be…
  Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
  - The waiters wore red jackets with black lapels, in summer white jackets with green lapels. There was a roast beef wagon. A pastry section in the huge kitchen.
3. 6
  Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
  - I began as a patrol officer, working the wagon, squad car, and three-wheelers until 1963, when I took the detective exam.
4. Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”)
  Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”); (occasionally, loosely) any car, van, or light truck.
5. 8
  Term of abuse.
  - […] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.
6. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
7. Buttocks.
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  To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation
  To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  - The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.
  - Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.
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  To travel in a wagon.
  - “I remember well the stories my great aunt told me in the late 1940’s. / “The stories of my great-grandfather who wagonned with his family from Gravenhurst, Ontario, to Nipissing Village where he built a log cabin and spent the winter.
10. A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It…
  A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

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Derived

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A definitional loop anchored at wagon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

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