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A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from carts (which have two wheels) and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles primarily for carrying people, such ...
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A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. A hay wagon in Germany, of a type common throughout Europe (the leiterwagen ).
Wagon, four-wheeled vehicle designed to be drawn by draft animals and known to have been used as early as the 1st century bc, incorporating such earlier innovations as the spoked wheel and metal wheel rim. Early examples also had such features as pivoted front axles and linchpins to secure the.
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A wagon (sometimes called a waggon) is a type of vehicle that has four wheels. It can be used to transport goods, food, supplies, and sometimes people. It can be pulled by a person, by animals, or by a vehicle (such as a tractor ). [1] A wagon used to be called a wain. A person who builds or repairs wagons is called a wainwright.
