Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wain"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wain \Wain\, n. [OE. wain, AS. w[ae]gn; akin to D. & G. wagen,
OHG. wagan, Icel. & Sw. vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way. ????.
See {Way}, {Weigh}, and cf. {Wagon}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conestoga wagon \Con`es*to"ga wag`on\ or wain \wain\ [From
Conestoga, Pennsylvania.]
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for
traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Wain
n 1: English writer (1925-1994) [syn: {Wain}, {John Wain}, {John
Barrington Wain}]
2: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa
Major [syn: {Big Dipper}, {Dipper}, {Plough}, {Charles's
Wain}, {Wain}, {Wagon}]
3: large open farm wagon
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