Category:Wain

Wain, n. Etym: [oe. wain, as. wægn; akin to d. & g. wagen, ohg. Wagan, icel. & sw. vagn, dan. vogn, and e. way. Way, weigh, and cf. Wagon.]

1. 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.

2. A chariot. [obs.] The wain. (astron.) See charles's wain, in the Vocabulary. -- wain rope, a cart rope. Shak.