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The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

taining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

lsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.

A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

To afflict with cramp. When the gout cramps my joints. Ford. To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.

A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

ly deep, with head declined. Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.

mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. Macaulay.

A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

Ant: behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.

Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.