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Wagon boiler. 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.
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