wagonet

English

Etymology

From wagon + -et.

Noun

wagonet (plural wagonets)

  1. A small wagon.
    • 1892, The Automotive Manufacturer, vol. 33, p. 205:
      Fig. 3 represents a style of wagonet with a panel seat at the front.
    • 1959, D'Arcy Niland, Woman from the Country, p. 47:
      Running through dust, Barbie came to the culvert over the dried-up creek; across the flat off the road a hundred yards or so she saw the wagonet drawn up on the bank, and the squat black shape of a man freeing the horse from the shafts.
    • 2002, Michael Hofmann, translating Josepth Roth, The Radetsky March, Folio Society 2015, p. 158:
      He heard a light wagonet approach, the nimble trot of hooves on the dusty street.

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