Meaning & use
Wains
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Old-fashioned or literary term for horse-drawn carts or wagons.
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The wains rolled slowly along the muddy country road, loaded with hay.
Villagers once used wains to haul grain to the mill.
A note on using this word
This archaic plural survives today mainly in poetry and the name of the constellation "Charles's Wain," an old British name for the Big Dipper.
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