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a box on wheels that hauled empires across continents long before engines were born
means A four-wheeled vehicle, usually with an open body, built for hauling heavy loads — pulled by animals in the old days, or by hand and engine since.
from From Dutch 'wagen,' which English borrowed in the 1500s alongside a flood of Dutch trade and shipping vocabulary. It shares deep Germanic roots with English's own native 'wain' (as in 'Charles's Wain,' the old name for the Big Dipper), both ultimately tracing back to the same Proto-Germanic source for a wheeled cart — and beyond that to a vast Indo-European family of words for 'to carry' or 'to go,' a cousin of Latin 'vehere' (which gives us 'vehicle') and even of English 'way' and 'weigh.'
- covered kind
- Conestoga wagons hauled six tons across colonial roads
- on the wagon
- phrase comes from swearing off liquor for water
- station model
- named for hauling luggage between train depots
- red flyer
- Radio Flyer sold over 100 million toy wagons
- circling up
- pioneers ringed wagons more for corralling livestock than defense
conestoga wagon — heavy covered wagon used by settlers on the oregon trail and santa fe trail from 1750s-1800s
chuck wagon — mobile kitchen wagon on cattle drives in the american west, introduced by charles goodnight in 1866
beer wagon budweiser — famous clydesdales-pulled wagon used in anheuser-busch advertising since 1933