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wagon-sheet

wagon-sheet is the alternative form of wagonsheet.

Meaning of wagonsheet

Noun

wagonsheet (plural wagonsheets)

  1. A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.
    • A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.1966, Squire Omar Barker, Little World Apart, page 92

Forms of wagon-sheet

pluralwagon-sheets

Questions about wagon-sheet

What is wagon-sheet the alternative form of?
Wagon-sheet is the alternative form of wagonsheet.

Words near wagon-sheet in the dictionary

  1. wagon-lit
  2. wagon-load
  3. wagon-loads
  4. wagon-master
  5. wagon-masters
  6. wagon-sheet
  7. wagon-sheets
  8. wagon-wheel effect
  9. wagon-wheel effects
  10. wagonable
  11. wagonage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wagon-sheet (page history and authors); wagonsheet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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