Word of the Day – Wain

• Noun:  Wain
  1.  a usually large and heavy vehicle for farm use; a hay wain
  2. Capitalized [short for Charles’s Wain] : big dipper
• Synonyms:
  1. caravan
  2. carriage
  3. buckboard
  4. buggy
  5. caisson
  6. coach
  7. dray
  8. pushcart
• Usage:
  1. “Sarloo took him in the common vehicle of the Jocaira, a wheelless wain shaped much like a soup bowl, which moved quietly and rapidly over the ground, skimming the surface in apparent contact.”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children.

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