Wain n.
1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. --Jeffrey.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. --Longfellow.
2. A chariot. [Obs.]
The Wain. Astron. See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary.
Wain rope, a cart rope.
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