vbl. sb. [f. WAGON v. + -ING1.] The action of travelling or conveying by wagon.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, v. 339. More than thirty miles of wagoning is required to bring the spirits of turpentine to a rail-road.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVIII. xiv. (1873), VIII. 59. The greatest activity and wagoning now visible there.
1877. A. Douai, Better Times (1884), 15. Already in the earliest, darkest ages were invented the arts of … navigating and wagoning.
b. colloq. Coach-driving.
1875. Reynardson, Down the Road, 49. Tom Hennesy, who was always fond of giving me a lesson in ‘waggoning,’ and by whose side I was sitting on the box.
1896. Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, viii. It’s a fine day for a little bit of waggoning.
