wagon

«wagon» in Mova's school dictionary: A vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses or oxen… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a wagon, wagons; UK also «waggon» — old)

meaning for a pupil

1) A vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses or oxen, used to carry heavy loads or people. tree →

2) An open railway truck that carries goods (UK). tree →

3) A child's small cart pulled by a handle (US, a little red wagon). tree →

4) (informal, US) A station wagon, a car with a long back. tree →

5) «On the wagon» (informal): not drinking alcohol. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history (settlers' covered wagons, wagon trains), trains (coal wagons), play (pulling a wagon), and maths (a train with 12 wagons, each carrying 20 tonnes). Phrases: «covered wagon», «wagon train», «on the wagon», «fix someone's wagon» (old).

examples

• The settlers crossed the plains in covered wagons. tree →
• The horse pulled the hay wagon. tree →
• The goods train had 30 wagons. tree →
• Each wagon carries 15 tonnes, so 4 wagons carry 60 tonnes. tree →
• I pulled my little sister in the red wagon. tree →
• (informal) Uncle Jim is on the wagon this month. tree →
• The wagon was filled with corpses. tree →

note

Countable. Old British spelling «waggon». In the UK, a railway «wagon» carries goods and a «carriage» carries people; in the USA both are often «cars». In maths: total load = number of wagons × load per wagon.

In the corpora

• "On the wagon" means not drinking alcohol.
• "Fell off the wagon" means started drinking again after stopping.
• A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.
• And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
• Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wagon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.