Definition of "wain" []

• A large open farm wagon. (noun)

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• "Pleiads, on late-setting Bootes, and on the Bear — which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of"
• "Now on the wain was a tall, upright churn; as soon as Georgie had ended his speech, the lid of the churn began to clipper-clapper, and who should speak out of it but the boggart himself."
• "Bootes, and on the Bear -- which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus -- for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left."