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wagonet

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Etymology

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From wagon +‎ -et.

Noun

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wagonet (plural wagonets)

  1. A small wagon.
    • 1892, The Automotive Manufacturer, volume 33, page 205:
      Fig. 3 represents a style of wagonet with a panel seat at the front.
    • 1959, D'Arcy Niland, Woman from the Country, page 47:
      Running through dust, Barbie came to the culvert over the dried-up creek; across the flat off the road a hundred yards or so she saw the wagonet drawn up on the bank, and the squat black shape of a man freeing the horse from the shafts.
    • 2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158:
      He heard a light wagonet approach, the nimble trot of hooves on the dusty street.

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