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A wagon (in British English, sometimes waggon) or dray (low, sideless) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transporting people or goods. Wagons are distinguished from carts (which is small and has two wheels), or a semi-trailor (which is large and has two wheels), and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles such as carriages. A wagon could be pulled by one animal or by several, often in pairs.
Sometimes, the word wagon is also used for railroad cars (not motorized, for goods or passengers) and the word is a part / the usual short form of station wagon, the non-British term for a sedan (saloon) with an extended rear cargo area. Other names: estate (car) / shooting brake (UK), break (F), station sedan (Aus), Kombi (generally in German, in English also varied to combi), Variant (VW models), Caravan (GMs Opel models), Avant (Audis wagons), Touring (BMWs wagons).
The word is also sometimes used as a colloquialism for any vehicle, particularly in the British Military and also again in British English as an alternative name for a lorry (truck).
See also
*Araba
*Baby carriage
*Buckboard
*Carriage
*Cart
*Conestoga wagon
*Covered wagon
*Dolly
*Dolly (trailer)
*Go-cart
*Golf cart
*Hackney carriage
*Horse-drawn vehicle
*Forklift truck
*Lorry (horse-drawn)
*Omnibus
*Ox-wagon
*Perambulator
*Radio Flyer toy wagon
*Soapbox
*Stagecoach
*Surrey
*Trolley (horse-drawn)
*Twenty mule team
*Vardo (gypsy wagon)
*Wagon train
*Wagonette
*Wagon-wheel effect
*Wheel chair
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Category:Animal-powered vehicles
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la:Carrus
hu:Kocsi
nl:Wagen
pl:fura
pt:Carroça
ru:Повозка
tr:Araba
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