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beach wagon

beach wagon noun: a light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.

beach wagon: a light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand
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Noun

beach wagon (plural beach wagons)

  1. (historical) A light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.
    • How many young ladies are there?" asked her mother, beginning to look sober.
      "Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come."
      "Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about."
      "Why, mother, how can you think of such a thing; not more than six or eight...1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 26, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC
    • The Scottsburg road from Drain's was the one usually taken. At the former place the stage was abandoned for a small steamer to Gardiner, or to the mouth of the river (I took the mail-carrier's small boat from Gardiner to the coast), whence a beach-wagon conveyed passengers twenty miles to the north...1891, Frances Fuller Victor, Atlantis Arisen, Chapter 10

Forms of beach wagon

pluralbeach wagons

Questions about beach wagon

What does beach wagon mean?
Beach wagon means a light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.
What part of speech is beach wagon?
Beach wagon is a noun.
What is the plural of beach wagon?
The plural of beach wagon is beach wagons.

Words near beach wagon in the dictionary

  1. beach umbrella
  2. beach umbrellas
  3. beach volleyball
  4. beach volleyball player
  5. beach volleyballs
  6. beach wagon
  7. beach wagons
  8. beach-girl
  9. beach-girls
  10. beach-goer
  11. beach-goers

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