. See the Note under Boiler, 3. — Wagon ceiling(Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon- headed, arch or ceiling; — sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular. — Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like. — Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag. — Wagon vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Vault.

Wagon
(Wag"on) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning.] To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

Wagon
(Wag"on), v. i. To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Wagonage
(Wag"on*age) n.

1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.

Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.
Carlyle.

Wagon boiler

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