Meaning & use
waggon
A chiefly British spelling of wagon, a four-wheeled vehicle used to carry heavy loads.
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The old waggon creaked along the country lane, loaded with sacks of grain.
Museum records still use the older spelling waggon to label nineteenth-century farm vehicles.
A note on using this word
American English almost always uses wagon; waggon appears mainly in older or British texts.
Words with a similar meaning
wagoncart
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