wagonry

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

wagon +‎ -ry

Noun[edit]

wagonry (uncountable)

  1. Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
    • 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:
      Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.
    • 1998, Shalom Cholawski, The Jews of Bielorussia During World War II, page xvi:
      In order to maintain themselves, Jewish farmers were compelled to take up supplementary occupations like craftmaking, trade and wagonry.