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noun
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pushed or pulled by human force.
- A child"s riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- (context, US, AU, slang) A station wagon.
- (slang) A paddy wagon.
- A truck, or lorry.
- (context, Ireland, slang) An immoral woman, slapper.
verb
- (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.
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proper noun
- the constellation Auriga
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| wain |
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noun
- (archaic or literary) A wagon; A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
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| wane |
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noun
- (astronomy) the waning moon; refers to that portion of the lunar revolution between full and new.
- Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
- An inequality in a board.
- (scot slang) a child :also wain,waine
verb (wan, ing)
- To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
- To decline; to fail; to sink.
- To cause to decrease.
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| wester |
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noun
- A strong westerly wind.
verb to wester
- To move towards the west
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| whistler |
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noun (wikipedia, Whistler)
- someone or something that whistles
- the whistling marmot
- the goldeneye
- (physics) an audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning
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| white dwarf |
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noun
- (star) A dying star of low or medium mass, more solid but less bright than the sun.
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| white hole |
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noun
- (idiom) A theoretically possible but physically highly unlikely singularity which would emit matter and energy; the antithesis of a black hole.
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| winter solstice |
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noun
- (Astronomy) The moment when the Earth is in that point of its orbit where the northern or southern hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun.
- Note: When it is Winter solstice in one hemisphere, it is summer solstice in the other.
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noun
- a hole burrowed by a worm
- 1593, w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, w:The Rape of Lucrece, The Rape of Lucrece
- :To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.
- (physics) A hypothetical shortcut between distant parts of space, permitting faster-than-light travel and time travel.
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