freightwagon

plural freightwagons · alternative US freight wagon · alternative UK freight waggon · alternative UK freight-waggon · alternative UK freightwaggon

1. Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.

   Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies.

   2011, Lois Lenski, Texas Tomboy

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   “Come on, we'd better find out what this ruckus is about,” Jessie said, and they joined the crowd converging on the sheriff's office. In front of the office door was parked a freightwagon, belonging, according to the scrollwork on its high sides, [...]

   1985, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud

   The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!

   2006, Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Choice

   Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.

   2009, S a Carter, The Dark Side of the Mountain