wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæɡ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈwæɡən/
ipa: /ˈwæːɡən/
rhymes: -æɡən
Forms: form: wagons
form: wagoning
form: wagonning
form: wagoned
form: wagoned
form: wagonned
form: wagonned
form: waggon
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1781–1782, Thomas Jefferson, “Query VI. A Notice of the Mines and Other Subterraneous Riches; Its Trees, Plants, Fruits, &c.”, in Notes on the State of Virginia. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Bar iron, of the first quality; pig metal and castings, of various denominations; wheat in large quantities; other grain, whiskey, gin, clover-seed, flax-seed, beeswax, butter et cetera, are wagoned to these points, and others on the streams mentioned, and taken down the Susquehanna.
ref: 1822, “Bellefonte and Philipsburg Turnpike Road Company”, in Documents, Accompanying the Report of the Committee, on Roads, Bridges and Inland Navigation, Read in the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the 23d of March, 1822, Harrisburg, Pa.: C. Mowry, printer, →OCLC, paragraph 35, page 15:
text: Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.
ref: 1824 August 8, “New-York Farming. From the American Farmer. Observations of a Correspondent on a Visit to Saratoga.”, in Daily National Intelligencer, volume XII, number 8643, Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, published 21 September 1824, →OCLC, page [2], column 3:
text: In compliance with the positive injunction of the 4th section of the internal improvement act of 1836, which expressly declares that the canal shall be constructed and completed "to the Ohio river at Lawrenceburgh," and to exempt the opening trade from the expense and delay of wagoning to and from the river, as stated in the report of the board, the necessary steps were taken to connect the trade of the canal with the navigation of the river.
ref: 1840 January 14, N. Noble, “Report of the Board of Internal Improvements”, in Journal of the House of Representatives, at the Twenty-fourth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, […], Indianapolis, Ind.: J. Livingston, printers, published 1839–1840, →OCLC, page 746:
text: But then he learned about the junk man who brought newspapers, bottles, magazines and metal. So he made the neighborhood rounds collecting these items and then wagonned them down town to the junk yard.
ref: 1985 July 10, Wesley Karney, “That wagon’s been draggin’ behind many a bright-eyed boy”, in The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2–3:
text: Around 1903, smallpox and typhoid became so bad at the new Kirby mill town of Silsbee that the company doctor ordered wives to keep their children inside, lest they be infected by germs shaken from the pine coffins of disease victims wagoned through town on their way to the cemetery.
ref: 1998, Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, “Panoramas”, in Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
examples: text: [T]he toll was taken off freight on ninety miles of the canal between Huntingdon and Duncan's Island, and subsequently off passengers, to enable the companies to meet the unexpected and heavy expense necessarily incurred by staging and wagoning across the breach in the line.
ref: 1838, [Joseph Ritner], Message from the Governor to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Read in Senate, Dec. 27, 1838, Harrisburg, Pa.: Printed by E[manuel] Guyer, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
text: “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.
ref: 1975 September 12, Dr. Richardson, “Text of Dr. Richardson’s speech”, in The North Bay Nugget, 69th year, number 74, North Bay, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 7:
glosses: To travel in a wagon.
Derived terms: word: wagoning
word: waggoning