freightwagon
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Etymology edit
From freight + wagon. Compare West Frisian frachtwein (“truck, lorry”), Dutch vrachtwagen (“truck, lorry”), German Frachtwagen, Swedish fraktvagn (“cargo truck”).
Noun edit
freightwagon (plural freightwagons)
- Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.
- 1985, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud:
- “Come on, we'd better find out what this ruckus is about,” Jessie said, and they joined the crowd converging on the sheriff's office. In front of the office door was parked a freightwagon, belonging, according to the scrollwork on its high sides, [...]
- 2006, Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Choice:
- The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!
- 2009, S a Carter, The Dark Side of the Mountain:
- Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.
- 2011, Lois Lenski, Texas Tomboy:
- Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies.