wagonet

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.

Anagrams

• tea gown, tea-gown, teagown