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WAINn.
Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913
A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow. A chariot. [Obs.] The Wain. (Astron.) See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. -- Wain rope, a cart rope. Shak.
wainnoun
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A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
wainnoun
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Alternative form of wean.
wainverb
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To carry.

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