wagon boiler (wagon boiler)

A kind of steam-boiler having originally a semicylindrical top, the ends and sides vertical, and the bottom flat, thus having the shape of a wagon covered with an arched tilt. Improved forms have the sides and bottom slightly curved inward. wagon-bow (wag'on-bō), n. A bent slat of wood used, generally in combination with others, to support the top or cover of a wagon. wagon-box (wag'on-boks), n. The part of a wagon mounted upon the wheels and axles, and a name formerly in use, derived from a work of this nature published at Leyden in 1584-5 by Wagenaar. wagoner-bookt (wag'on-ér-bük), n. Same as wagoner2. wagone t, waggone t (wag'on-es), n. [ And up into his seate she mounts. Chapman, Iliad, v. 838. wagonette, waggonette (wag-o-net'), n. [Also wagonet; IMG:content-1993.png:[blocks in formation] was of the waggonette fashion, Trollope, South Africa, I. xv.