Definition of "lumber-wagon" [lumber-wagon]

• Any large box-wagon, used especially by farmers for the transportation of miscellaneous heavy articles; also, a heavy wagon used in hauling lumber. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "On its margin I found an irregular wooden inn, with a lumber-wagon at the door, on which was the carcass of a large grizzly bear, shot behind the house this morning."
• "He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting."
• "A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block."