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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 kindConestoga wagons hauled six tons across colonial roads
on the wagonphrase comes from swearing off liquor for water
station modelnamed for hauling luggage between train depots
red flyerRadio Flyer sold over 100 million toy wagons
circling uppioneers ringed wagons more for corralling livestock than defense