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wagonette

wagonette noun: a kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.

wagonette: a kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered
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Noun

wagonette (plural wagonettes)

  1. A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
    • The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298
    • On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown

Examples of wagonette in a sentence

  • He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.1954, People's China, numbers 1-12, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
  • Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting.2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68:

Forms of wagonette

pluralwagonettes
alternative formwaggonette

Origin of wagonette

From wagon + -ette.

Questions about wagonette

What does wagonette mean?
Wagonette means a kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
How do you use wagonette in a sentence?
He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.
What part of speech is wagonette?
Wagonette is a noun.
What is the plural of wagonette?
The plural of wagonette is wagonettes.

Words near wagonette in the dictionary

  1. Wagoner County
  2. wagoner's axe
  3. wagoners
  4. wagonet
  5. wagonets
  6. wagonette
  7. wagonettes
  8. wagonful
  9. wagonfuls
  10. wagoning
  11. wagonless

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