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A wagon (in British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
, sometimes waggon) or dray (low, sideless) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle
Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
, mules
Mule

In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.Mules are classified as an F1 hybrid.The term "mule" was formerly applied to the infertile offspring of any two creatures of different species....
 or oxen
Ox

Oxen are bovinae trained as draught animals. Often they are adult, castration males. Oxen are used for ploughing, transport, hauling cargo, threshing grain by trampling, powering machines for grinding grain, irrigation or other purposes, and drawing carts and wagons....
. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transportation of people or goods.






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Wagon
A wagon (in British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
, sometimes waggon) or dray (low, sideless) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle
Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
, mules
Mule

In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.Mules are classified as an F1 hybrid.The term "mule" was formerly applied to the infertile offspring of any two creatures of different species....
 or oxen
Ox

Oxen are bovinae trained as draught animals. Often they are adult, castration males. Oxen are used for ploughing, transport, hauling cargo, threshing grain by trampling, powering machines for grinding grain, irrigation or other purposes, and drawing carts and wagons....
. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transportation of people or goods. Wagons are distinguished from cart
Cart

A cart is a vehicle or device designed for transport, using two or four wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people....
s (which have two wheels), and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles such as carriage
Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
s. A wagon could be pulled by one animal or by several, often in pairs.

Sometimes, the word wagon is also used for railroad car
Railroad car

A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive....
s (not motorized, for goods or passengers), and the word is a part / the usual short form of station wagon
Station wagon

A station wagon in American English, Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English usage and an estate car in British English usage, is a passenger automobile with a car body style similar to a sedan but with the roofline following the full, sometimes extended rear cargo area, i.e. ending with a more vertical door...
, the non-British term for a sedan (saloon) with an extended rear cargo area. Other names: estate (car) / shooting brake (UK), break (F), station sedan (Aus), Kombi (generally in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 also varied to combi), Variant (VW
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
 models), Caravan (GM
General Motors

General Motors Corporation , founded in 1908, is the world's second-largest automaker after Toyota, ranked by 2008 global unit sales. GM was the global sales leader for 77 consecutive calendar years from 1931 to 2008....
's Opel
Opel

Adam Opel Gesellschaft mit beschr?nkter Haftung is a Germany automaker, part of General Motors.The company was founded on 21 January, 1863, and began making automobiles in 1899....
 models), Avant (Audi
Audi

AUDI AG, is a Germany car manufacturer which produces cars under the Audi brand, . The name Audi is based on a latin translation of the last name of the founder August "Horch", itself the German word for ?hear." Another explanation for the origin of the name is as an acronym for ?Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt."...
's wagons), Touring (BMW
BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
's wagons).

The word is also sometimes used as a colloquialism for any vehicle, particularly in the British Military.

See also

  • Araba
    Araba (carriage)

    An araba is a carriage , wagon or cart drawn by horses or oxen, used in Turkey and neighboring Middle Eastern countries. It is usually heavy and without springs, and often covered....
  • Baby carriage
    Baby transport

    For transportation of a infant or toddler there are special vehicles, special car seats, and devices for carrying....
  • Buckboard
    Buckboard

    A four-wheel wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. The buckboard is steered by its front wheels, which are connected to each other by a single axle....
  • Carriage
    Carriage

    A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
  • Cart
    Cart

    A cart is a vehicle or device designed for transport, using two or four wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people....
  • Conestoga wagon
    Conestoga wagon

    The Conestoga wagon is a heavy, broad-wheeled covered freight carrier used extensively during the late 1700s and 1800s in the United States. It was large enough to transport loads up to 8 short tons , and was drawn by 4 to 8 mules or 4 to 9 oxen....
  • Covered wagon
    Covered wagon

    The covered wagon is an icon of the American Old West, used in travel on the Oregon Trail.Although covered wagons were commonly used for shorter moves within the United States, in the mid-nineteeth century thousands of Americans took them across the plains to Oregon and California....
  • Dolly
    Dolly

    Dolly may refer to one of the following:*Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots*Dolly , either a portable anvil or wheeled platform...
  • Dolly (trailer)
    Dolly (trailer)

    A dolly that can be tow hitch to a truck or trailer so as to support a semi-trailer. The dolly is equipped with a Fifth wheel coupling to which the semi-trailer is coupled....
  • Go-cart
    Kart racing

    Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design....
  • Golf cart
  • Hackney carriage
    Hackney carriage

    ||-||-||}A hackney or hackney carriage is a carriage or automobile for hire. A livery carriage superior to the hackney was called a remise....
  • Horse-drawn vehicle
    Horse-drawn vehicle

    Horse-drawn vehicles were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport....
  • Forklift truck
    Forklift truck

    A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and transport materials. The modern forklift was developed in the 1920s by various companies including the transmission manufacturing company Clark Material Handling Company and the hoist company Yale Materials Handling Corporation....
  • Lorry (horse-drawn)
    Lorry (horse-drawn)

    Among horse-drawn vehicles, a lorry was a low-loading trolley . It was used mainly for the carriage of other vehicles, for example for delivery from the coachbuilders or returning there for repair....
  • Omnibus
    Bus

    A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
  • Ox-wagon
    Ox-wagon

    The Ox-wagon was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern Africa but also in New Zealand and Australia where it was known as a bullock wagon....
  • Perambulator
    Baby transport

    For transportation of a infant or toddler there are special vehicles, special car seats, and devices for carrying....
  • Radio Flyer
    Radio Flyer (company)

    Radio Flyer is an United States toy company best known for their popular toy wagon. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois....
     toy wagon
    Toy wagon

    A toy wagon has the same structure as the larger wagon , but with an open top and a much smaller size. A child's wagon is traditionally painted red....
  • Soapbox
    Soapbox (car)

    A soapbox car is a motorless vehicle capable of holding a driver built for the purpose of racing or recreation. Propelled by gravity, soapbox cars can reach upwards of 50 km/h ....
  • Stagecoach
    Stagecoach

    A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled closed coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand....
  • Surrey
    Surrey (carriage)

    A surrey is a four-wheel, two-seated pleasure carriage with an open Bicycle pedal seat. It resembles a Cabriolet but has a straight or nearly straight bottom, sometimes cut under....
  • Trolley (horse-drawn)
    Trolley (horse-drawn)

    Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage....
  • Twenty mule team
    Twenty mule team

    Twenty-mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889....
  • Vardo (gypsy wagon)
    Vardo (gypsy wagon)

    A vardo is a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by English Roma people . The design of the vardo included large wheels running outside the body of the van, which slopes outwards considerably towards the eaves....
  • Wagon train
    Wagon train

    A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. In the American Old West, individuals traveling across the plains in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance....
  • Wagon-wheel effect
    Wagon-wheel effect

    The wagon-wheel effect is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation....
  • Wheel chair