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A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.

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  1. n. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
  2. n. A chariot.
  3. n. large open farm wagon
  4. 1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow. 2. A chariot. [Obs.] The Wain. (Astron.) See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. -- Wain rope, a cart rope. Shak.
  5. n. English writer (1925-1994) n. large open farm wagon