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horse-wain en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English *hors-wain, from Old English horswæġn (“chariot”), equivalent to horse + wain.

Meanings

1. (rare) A wain (i.e. wagon) drawn by horse.
   • I've tut up my sasses for horse-wains, An' twaded by sippers for boots: […] 1873, Mothers' Journal: A Family Magazine, volume 38, page 550:
   • Coal was conveyed into the more remote districts in the rough horse-wains of the time, and carried also in sacks or creels slung on the backs of pack horses. 1862, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions, volume 10, page 121:
   • And thou, my daughter, from the horse-wain step, […] 1916, Euripides, Arthur Sanders Way, Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis, page 57:
   • Upon a horse-wain, even as thou sayest, […] 1909, Sophocles in English Verse, volume 2, page 43:

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Relateds

horsewagon