Other forms: wagons
A wagon is a four-wheeled cart for carrying heavy things, pulled rather than driven — by horses, or these days by a tractor. Barrels, hay, timber, or a whole family's belongings crossing a plain.
On the railway a wagon is a goods truck: coal wagons, a wagon of steel, a hundred of them behind one engine. The vehicles people sit in are carriages or cars instead, so a train has both. In America a station wagon is what Britain calls an estate car, and a covered wagon is the canvas-topped one out of every western. Waggon with two g's is the older British spelling and still turns up in old books and on old signs. Two phrases have drifted a long way from the cart: on the wagon means off alcohol, and to fall off the wagon is to start drinking again.
1nounwagonA four-wheeled cart for goods, pulled by animals or a tractor.~74%
“The wagon was loaded with hay and moved off slowly.”
2nountruckIn British English, a goods truck in a train.~8%
“A line of coal wagons stood outside the station.”
3nounlongIn American English, a station wagon — a long car with a door at the back.~18%
“They packed the wagon and drove west.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 185 sentences found in the wild and placed 123 of them on a sense (62 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
wagon is a cart.
Also accepted in games: waggon
WAG-on → a BAG
A giant bag with four wheels fixed under it, packed to the top with boxes, and a horse pulling it up the road.
hooks ontobag
English already had a word for a four-wheeled cart — wain. Wagon came over from Dutch and pushed it out, though the two are the same word underneath. Behind both is a root meaning to transport, which also gave way, the thing you are carried along, and weigh, which was once to lift and carry.
Proto-Indo-European
*weǵʰ- — to transport
Proto-Germanic
*wagnaz — wagon
Proto-West Germanic
*wagn
Old Dutch
*wagan
Middle Dutch
wagen
English, today
wagon
Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch wagan, from Proto-West Germanic wagn, from Proto-Germanic wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh. Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse. The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA