What's the difference between buckboard and wagon?

Buckboard


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

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Wagon


Definition:

  • (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
  • (n.) A freight car on a railway.
  • (n.) A chariot
  • (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
  • (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
  • (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
  • (3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
  • (4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
  • (6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
  • (7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
  • (8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
  • (9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
  • (11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
  • (12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
  • (13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
  • (14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
  • (15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
  • (16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
  • (17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
  • (18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
  • (19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
  • (20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.

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