Definition of wain

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Wain (n.) A chariot.

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Wain :: Wain (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon..
Car :: Car (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper..
Winding :: Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
Tway :: Tway (a. & n.) Two; twain.
Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The jager gull.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..
Portal :: Portal (n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment..
Wainscoting :: Wainscoting (n.) The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..
Geminate :: Geminate (a.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers..
Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The tropic bird.
Cordwainer :: Cordwainer (n.) A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain..
Wagoner :: Wagoner (n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa..
Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..
Swainling :: Swainish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant..
Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle..
Plough :: Plough (n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
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