Synonyms for wain

Grammar : Noun

Spell : weyn

Phonetic Transcription : weɪn

Top 10 synonyms for wain

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Définition of wain

Origin : Old English wægn "wheeled vehicle," from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (see wagon). Largely fallen from use by c.1600, but kept alive by poets, who found it easier to rhyme on than wagon. As a name for the Big Dipper/Plough, it is from Old English (see Charles's Wain).

As in wagon : noun cart
As in wagon : noun vehicle

Example sentences :

Then he hoisted the tree on to the wain, roped it into place, and told the cartman to drive on.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

Then, all at once, a wain had stood at the gate: the servants hastened to open it.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

And after the wain, on foot, the two brothers, hand in hand.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

Lorand pointed speechlessly to the wain, and could not tell them.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

With the Wenman, who drove the wain, we may mention the Leader or Loader.
Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley

An earlier Godolphin had been one of the "four wheels of Charles's Wain."
Extract from : « The Cornwall Coast » by Arthur L. Salmon

Thus in Charles' Wain some of the stars are approaching, others receding.
Extract from : « The Beauties of Nature » by Sir John Lubbock

And may I take out my little ummabella (umbrella), case it might wain?
Extract from : « A World of Girls » by L. T. Meade

But—breakfast at 6:30, and Charles's Wain over the new chimney, or its equivalent!
Extract from : « It Never Can Happen Again » by William De Morgan

Swiftly her attendants prepared the wain and harnessed the mules.
Extract from : « Half a Hundred Hero Tales » by Various

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