n. 四轮马车, 货车

[法] 囚车, 马车, 运货车

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}.


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.


Wagon \Wag"on\, v. i.
To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between
Philadelphia and its suburbs.