Meaning & use

waggon

noun·Advanced

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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