WAGON, or WAGGON  , a large four-wheeled vehicle for the carriage of heavy loads, and drawn by two or more horses . This is the general English use of the term, where it is more particularly confined to the large vehicles employed in the carrying of agricultural produce . It is also used of the uncovered heavy rolling stock for goods on railways . In America the term is applied also to lighter vehicles, such as are used for express delivery, police work, &c., and to various forms of four-wheeled vehicles used for driving, to which the English term " cart " would be given . The word " wagon " appears to be a direct adaptation of Du . Wagen (cf . Ger . Wagen, Swed . Vagn, &c.) . Skeat finds the earliest use of the word in Lord Berner's translation of Froissart (1523-1525), so that it is by no means an early word . The O.E. cognate word was wasgn, later wren, by dropping of g (cf. regn, ren, rain), modern " wain." The root of all these cognate words, meaning to carry, is seen in Lat. vehere . The term " wagon " or " waggon " is applied technically in book-binding to a frame of cane used for trimming the edges of gold leaf .

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architecture a " wagon-ceiling " is a boarded roof of the Tudor time, either of semicircular or polygonal section . It is boarded with thin panels of oak or other wood ornamented with mouldings and with loops at the intersections .