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Wag(o)un, Waggen, n. Also: vagen, wag(g)on, vagon(e, vaggone. [e.m.E. wagan(e (1523), wagen (1542), wagon (1555-6), waggon (1573-80), Du. wagen.Cf. Wayn(e n.] a. A wagon, a vehicle used chiefly in the transport of heavy goods. Cf. Wayn(e n. b. A vehicle for the transport of passengers, a coach. c. attrib. and comb.a. a1578 Pitsc. I 204/7.
They sett waguns and men of war to pase witht men witht the kingis awin money 1626 Reg. Great S. 355/2.
Apud Hamptoun-Court … Rex, quia M. Willelmus Drummound de Hathornedene plurimum temporis, laboris et pecuniarum insumpserat in excogitandis et fabricandis machinis … sclopporum quasi conjugatorum machinam que … currus fulminans appellari potuit, lie fyerie-waggon 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 22 Nov.
To the waggenman that carryed with his waggen the asse away with the sweipingis of the hous 1639 Baillie I 165.
He … made a waggon of the old communion table to lead his peets inb. 1622 Sc. N. & Q. I 103.
The charges of the craftisman … his going thair & backcuming be vagone 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 299.
The supplicant desyres [permission] … to sett up ane lairge passadge wagon or coatch to be drawen be four horses able to contein ten or more persones … and carie passingers betwixt Edinburgh and Leith 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 299.
The said comon vagon or coatch in hir frequent and constant passadge [between Edinburgh and Leith] will be verrie usefullc. attrib. 1633 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 333.
His wagoun horssis 1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII 88a.
Four vaggone meiris a1686 Turner Mem. 25.
The Earle of Leven … took 2500 lb. sterline to himselfe, which the Parliament of England had sent … for wagon moneycomb. 1603 Montgomery Mem. 247.
To my Lady Killders vagenman, for the caring of my sedell, v s. 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 22 Nov. (see a above). 1645 Army of the Covenant II 502.
To Robert Dicksone Waggonmaster … for Waggonmen under his comand