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A kingbolt of a wagon.

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]

To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.

ecially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. Gwilt.

icy, one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified. -- Wager policy, a policy that shows on the face of it that the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in anything insured.

A sailor's wages when in port.

s. Bouvier. -- Prize fight, an exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists, for a stake or wager. -- Prize fighter, one who fights publicly for a reward; -- applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist. Pope. -- Prize fighting, fighting, especially boxing, in public for a reward or wager. -- Prize master, an offi…

Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]

One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

A wagtail.

or making cameos. -- Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. Blackstone. -- Queen dowager, the widow of a king. -- Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc. -- Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning king or queen. -- Queen of May.…

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

Rampant regardant, rampant, but looking backward. -- Rampant vault (Arch.), a continuous wagon vault, or cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined planed plane, such as the vault supporting a stairway, or forming the ceiling of a stairway.

One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. [Cant]

One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

7. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.

r emotion. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.