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spring wagon
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a light wagon, the box of which rides on springs.
See: spring cart
Quotations
1850
Jonathan it was, and he brought us good news,--that we must walk some couple of miles to a farm-house, where a spring-waggon, well filled with straw, would be ready to carry us on to Kingston, then eight or nine miles distant.
1880
The light waggon . . . the two-horse spring waggon similar to the ordinary "democrat" waggon of Ontario, and the double buck-board are the greatest favourites.
1950
The ground about the stables was so jammed with strange horses, democrats, buckboards and spring wagons that they could hardly reach them.