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Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. Milton.

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  • WAGON
    The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
  • CONVEYANCER
    One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.
  • WAGONER
    The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. (more info) 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
  • WAGON-ROOFED
    Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
  • WAGONAGE
    1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon. 2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.
  • WAGONFUL
    As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • WAGON-HEADED
    Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • WAGONETTE
    A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
  • WAGONRY
    Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. Milton.
  • CONVEYANCE
    The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. found the conveyances in law
  • WAGONLOAD
    See WAGONFUL
  • WAGONWRIGHT
    One who makes wagons.
  • CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
    A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
  • RECONVEYANCE
    Act of reconveying.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
    A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.

 

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