[f. WAGON sb.]
1. intr. To travel in a wagon; to transport goods by wagon. Chiefly U.S.
1606. N. B[axter], Sydney’s Ourania, D 1. She waggoneth to Neptunes Pallace than.
1828–32. Webster, Wagon, v.i. To practice the transportation of goods in a wagon. The man wagons between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
a. 1904. A. Adams, Log Cowboy, ix. 129. It was a hundred miles to wagon from the freight point where we got our supplies.
1907. ‘C. E. Craddock,’ Windfall, vi. 103. I can’t figure out how the lydy managed to stay so stiff and starched these seven miles and more, waggoning down from the mountain.
2. trans. To put into a wagon for conveyance.
1649. Davenant, Love & Honour, I. i. 1/2. Is all our pillage waggond? Ibid., 3/1. See him well waggond, and provide A surgeon to attend his cure.
1795. Sporting Mag., V. 35. Our party … bagged, or rather waggoned 876 hares.
1812. J. Flaxman, Lett. W. Hayley, 20 Feb., in Pearson’s Catal. (1886), No. 60. Resignation is at length in, waggoned for Feltham.
3. U.S. To transport (goods) in a wagon or by means of a train of wagons. Also with up.
1755. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1889, I. 187. The quantity is too great for the present consumption, and to wagon it up can never answer the expense.
1779. T. Jefferson, Corr., Wks. 1859, I. 216. They have bought quantities of flour for these troops in Cumberland, have ordered it to be wagoned down to Manchester, and wagoned thence up to the barracks. Ibid. (1782), Notes State Virginia (1787), 39. The ore is first waggoned to the river.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, v. 321. Sometimes they had had to buy corn at a dollar a bushel, and wagon it home from Raleigh.
