noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chuck wagon
paddy wagon
station wagon
wagon train
welcome wagon
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The company is bringing out the welcome wagon for the new sales recruits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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There is also an old goods wagon at this spot, but it is not from this line.
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Parked ahead on the distant corner was his old dusty station wagon .
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It will feature vehicles such as old buses, wagons and fire engines.
■ NOUN
paddy
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It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying.
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They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons , and charged them with disorderly conduct.
rail
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Eric's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am.
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Councillors in Sefton have demanded rail wagons from the site be enclosed adding £12m to the company's costs.
railway
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Ageing railway wagons continue to run along old lines, now turned orange with rust.
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In the background, a railway wagon awaits collection.
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No explanation was given, least of all to the thousands of workers living in converted railway wagons around the site.
station
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Also there is no legal obstruction to you taking the coffin to the crematorium in a station wagon .
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It was for the upper middle class in their station wagons that rumbled over our heads at night.
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The rotted-out Ford station wagon has been replaced.
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Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away.
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Before long, friends pitched in and helped the family buy a used station wagon .
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The latest in the field are a soft top and station wagon Defender 90 models from Land Rover.
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She rode in back of the station wagon , probably on a wheeled stretcher, with a battery-run respirator on her chest.
train
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He was left behind by the rest of the wagon train because his vehicle was so cumbersome.
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There must be people in these old graveyards who came out on wagon trains .
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She attacked a wagon train two years ago.
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As sundown approached, scores of settlers and a wagon train of police vans moved down the hill as Maj.
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The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train .
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I passed long wagon trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket to shield them....
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Everybody circled up like wagon trains around the bleach vats and wood room and even the goddamn lunch table.
■ VERB
circle
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Instead, leaders increasingly see it as their job to circle the wagons .
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There is the natural tendency, too, for players to circle the wagons in the locker room.
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Everybody circled up like wagon trains around the bleach vats and wood room and even the goddamn lunch table.
drive
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Sitting Bull drove her in his wagon to the town of Cannonball.
haul
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It hauled wagons up a I-in-8 slope.
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A big dray horse might be suited to haul a coal wagon , a more delicate saddle horse to recreational riding.
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Mothei; struggling on tiny bound feet, was hauling a wagon uphill in the snow.
pull
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But because of incompatibility problems she was unable to pull the wagons under the automatic loader.
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The lead horse will accept nothing less than pulling the wagon , and that is where the first breakdown in communication came.
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The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wagon wheel was no trifle; neither was a stove.
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A servant hitched up a wagon and drove her the short distance to Mount Pitt.
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D'you imagine those wagons hold food?
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Louis in Conestoga wagons and traveled across the vast, perilous country in search of a better life in the West.
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The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon .
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There was money to be made caring for and feeding the travelers, repairing their wagons, buying and selling them livestock.
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They just put them in the meat wagon and dropped them up town.