Wain

Wain

A wain is a type of horse-drawn, load-carrying vehicle, used for agricultural purposes rather than transporting people, for example a haywain. It normally has four wheels but the term has now acquired slightly poetical connotations so is not always used with technical correctness. However, a two-wheeled 'haywain' would be a hay cart, as opposed to a carriage. "Wain" is also an archaic term for chariot.

Builders of wains were known as wainwrights, just as the builders of carts were known as cartwrights. These trades no longer exist, but the terms survive as the surnames of descendants of those practising these crafts.

A wain was the subject of John Constable's 1821 painting The Hay Wain. The painting, which was part of Constable's Gold Medal exhibit to Charles X, depicts a site in Suffolk, near Flatford on the river Stour.

People

* [Wain Lim {Designer} (Samsung Art Rat CHampion)]
* Bea Wain
* "Charles' Wain", see Big Dipper
* David Wain
* "Edward Wain", see Robert Towne
* John Wain
* Louis Wain
* Richard William Leslie Wain
* William Wain Prior

Others

* "Burmeister & Wain", see MAN B&W Diesel
* Wain (Württemberg), a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Waine

* Waine Pryce

See also

* Wainwright
* Wein
* Wayne
* WAYN (acronym)


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  • Wain — Wain, n. [OE. wain, AS. w[ae]gn; akin to D. & G. wagen, OHG. wagan, Icel. & Sw. vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way. ????. See {Way}, {Weigh}, and cf. {Wagon}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A four wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Wain — Wain …   Wikipédia en Français

  • WAIN — can refer to:* WAIN (AM), a radio station at 1270 AM licensed to Columbia, Kentucky * WAIN FM, a radio station at 93.5 FM licensed to Columbia, Kentucky …   Wikipedia

  • wain — (n.) O.E. wægn wheeled vehicle, from P.Gmc. *wagnaz (see WAGON (Cf. wagon)). Largely fallen from use by c.1600, but kept alive by poets, who found it easier to rhyme on than wagon. As a name for the Big Dipper/Plough, it is from Old English (see… …   Etymology dictionary

  • wain — [wān] n. [ME < OE wægn, wheeled vehicle, akin to Du & Ger wagen < PGmc * wagna < IE * woĝhno < base * weĝh , to move > L vehere, to carry] [Old Poet.] a wagon or cart a wagon or cart the Wain CHARLES S WAIN …   English World dictionary

  • Wain —   [weɪn], John Barrington, englischer Schriftsteller, * Stoke on Trent 14. 3. 1925, ✝ Oxford 24. 5. 1994; studierte in Oxford, 1949 55 Dozent in Reading, 1973 78 Professor für Poetik in Oxford; mit seinen gesellschaftskritisch moralisierenden… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Wain — Wain, ehemals freies Reichsdorf, jetzt Pfarrdorf im Oberamte Wiblingen des württembergischen Donaukreises; Rittergut u. Schloß; 350 Ew …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Wain — Wain, John …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • wain — ► NOUN archaic ▪ a wagon or cart. ORIGIN Old English, related to WAY(Cf. ↑way) and WEIGH(Cf. ↑weigh) …   English terms dictionary

  • Wain — Wappen Deutschlandkarte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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