Meaning of wagonette | Babel Free

Definitions

A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.

Equivalents

Examples

“The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.”

“On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”

“He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.”

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