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To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U.S.]

ron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.

ouses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.

One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.

Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]

The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

An upstart. [Obs.] "The swaggering upspring." Shak.

pecially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton.

To swagger; to make an ostentatious show. [Prov. eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.

A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. [Eng.]

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.

To stake; to wager. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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.

Same as Wagonwright.

a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. Shak.

To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.

Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh." Shak.

f leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope. [Prov. Eng.]

To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.] That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare. Tim. i. 18.