wain, waine, wayn

[A. S. wægn, wæn =a wain; cogn. with Dutch wagen =a wagon (q. v.); O. Sax. wag an; Icel. vagn; Dan. vogn; Sw. vagn; O. H. Ger. wag an; Ger. wagen.] 1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, corn, hay, .; a wagon. "There from the sunburnt hayfield homeward creeps The loaded wain." Cowper: Task, i. 295. IMG:content-0612.png:[blocks in formation]