wagon
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: wagons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wagoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wagonning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: wagoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wagoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wagonned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: wagonned
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: waggon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To travel in a wagon.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
examples: [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.
“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.
Derived words: wagoning
waggoning
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