Wagon
A wagon (in British English, sometimes waggon) or dray (low, sideless) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transporting people or goods. Wagons are distinguished from carts (which is small and has two wheels), or a semi-trailor (which is large and has two wheels), and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles such as carriages. A wagon could be pulled by one animal or by several, often in pairs.
Sometimes, the word wagon is also used for railroad cars (not motorized, for goods or passengers) and the word is a part / the usual short form of station wagon, the non-British term for a sedan (saloon) with an extended rear cargo area. Other names: estate (car) / shooting brake (UK), break (F), station sedan (Aus), Kombi (generally in German, in English also varied to combi), Variant (VW models), Caravan (GM's Opel models), Avant (Audi's wagons), Touring (BMW's wagons).
The word is also sometimes used as a colloquialism for any vehicle, particularly in the British Military and also again in British English as an alternative name for a lorry (truck).
See also
Araba
Baby carriage
Buckboard
Carriage
Cart
Conestoga wagon
Covered wagon
Dolly
Dolly (trailer)
Go-cart
Golf cart
Hackney carriage
Horse-drawn vehicle
Forklift truck
Lorry (horse-drawn)
Omnibus
Ox-wagon
Perambulator
Radio Flyer toy wagon
Soapbox
Stagecoach
Surrey
Trolley (horse-drawn)
Twenty mule team
Vardo (gypsy wagon)
Wagon train
Wagonette
Wagon-wheel effect
Wheel chair
Translation of "Wagon"
Pennsylvania German: Waage, German: Fuhrwerk (Stellwagen), French: chariot, Ido: Charioto, Latin: Carrus, Hungarian: Kocsi, Dutch: Wagen, Polish: fura, Portuguese: Carroça, Russian: Повозка, Turkish: Araba, Walloon: tchår.
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