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noun

Wain n.

A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. "The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay." "Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore."

A chariot. (Obs.)

The Wain. (Astron.) See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary.

Wain rope, a cart rope.

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Etymology of 'Wain'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wain" Quotes from Famous Books

... arrayed in fine linen and blue-broidered cloaks, and after them came a golden wain with horses of snowy white and bench-cloths of blue, and therein sat Brynhild alone, clad in swan-white raiment and crowned with gold. Then they hailed her sweet and goodly, and so she entered the darksome gate-way and came ...

— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung • William Morris

... drove the wain, we may mention the Leader or Loader. The verbs "lead" and "load" are etymologically the same, and in the Midlands people talk of "leading," i.e. carting, coal. But these names could also come from residence near ...

— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... were twinkling like living things. Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky. A few thick tresses of her golden hair hung negligently over her bosom and shoulders. She placed her arm in Le Gardeur's, hanging heavily ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... of suns, which is also known as the Chariot of David, the Plow or Charles's Wain, and the Dipper, is one of the finest constellations in the Heavens, and one of the oldest—seeing that the Chinese hailed it as the divinity of the North, over three ...

— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion

... regarding them I had withdrawn, Turning a little to the other pole, There where the Wain had disappeared already, ...

— Dante's Purgatory • Dante

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