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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#m1)

2) An open railway truck that carries goods (UK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#m2)

3) A child's small cart pulled by a handle (US, a little red wagon). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#m3)

4) (informal, US) A station wagon, a car with a long back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#m4)

5) «On the wagon» (informal): not drinking alcohol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x1)
- The horse pulled the hay wagon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x2)
- The goods train had 30 wagons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x3)
- Each wagon carries 15 tonnes, so 4 wagons carry 60 tonnes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x4)
- I pulled my little sister in the red wagon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x5)
- (informal) Uncle Jim is on the wagon this month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x6)
- The wagon was filled with corpses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/13/)
- ["Fell off the wagon" means started drinking again after stopping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/14/)
- [A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/0/)
- [And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.253/)
- [Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.254/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wagon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wagon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.