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et of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.

An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages. [Slang]

To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]

The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

A laborer who receives his wages in kind. [Scot.]

e horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." Spenser. To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm…

A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.

r small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

rmine the possession of; to gamble for. -- To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

en for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]

To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont.

The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]