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freightwagon

freightwagon noun: any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.

Noun

freightwagon (plural freightwagons)

  1. Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.
    • “Come on, we'd better find out what this ruckus is about,” Jessie said, and they joined the crowd converging on the sheriff's office. In front of the office door was parked a freightwagon, belonging, according to the scrollwork on its high sides, [...]1985, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud
    • The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!2006, Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Choice

Examples of freightwagon in a sentence

  • Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.2009, S a Carter, The Dark Side of the Mountain:
  • Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies.2011, Lois Lenski, Texas Tomboy:

Forms of freightwagon

pluralfreightwagons
alternative USfreight wagon
alternative UKfreight waggon
alternative UKfreight-waggon
alternative UKfreightwaggon

Origin of freightwagon

From freight + wagon. Compare West Frisian frachtwein (“truck, lorry”), Dutch vrachtwagen (“truck, lorry”), German Frachtwagen, Swedish fraktvagn (“cargo truck”).

Questions about freightwagon

What does freightwagon mean?
Freightwagon means any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.
How do you use freightwagon in a sentence?
Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.
What part of speech is freightwagon?
Freightwagon is a noun.
What is the plural of freightwagon?
The plural of freightwagon is freightwagons.

Words near freightwagon in the dictionary

  1. freighthoppers
  2. freighthopping
  3. freighting
  4. freightless
  5. freights
  6. freightwagon
  7. freightwagons
  8. freightyard
  9. freightyards
  10. freijo
  11. freik

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