transport wagon, noun phrase

Origin:
Probably translation of Afrikaans transportwa.
historical
A large, heavy vehicle with low sides, used for the conveyance of goods and drawn usually by a team of between fourteen and eighteen oxen.
1866 J. Leyland Adventures II.I travelled by a Dutch transport waggon.
1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 55The tranport waggon is a gigantic van, with low wooden sides and a flat roof of canvas supported on iron stanchions.
1912 Ayliff & Whiteside Hist. of Abambo 33At daylight, the crossing of the river commenced. First, came a long line of transport wagons.
1926 P. Smith Beadle (1929) 267Made his living by driving a wool-and-transport wagon between the townships of Cortes.
1936 in N. Rouillard Matabele Thompson 46I found myself at no great distance from a transport waggon, laden with goods intended for a trader in the north.
1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 25Draghoender was on the main road to Kenhardt, Upington and the whole hinterland, so that traffic by transport wagons both ways was quite brisk.
1974 A.A. Telford in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. X. 569Buck- and transport-wagon. Larger wagons were built after the Great Trek to explore the interior. They were constructed on traditional lines but were more lavishly fitted out, sometimes partitioned into two compartments, and equipped with side-boxes, gun-racks, folding stools and chairs, water and meat barrels, windows, curtains and lamps...A large buck- or transport-wagon was usually from 5,5 to 6,7 metres long, and 1,5 to 2 metres wide, with either a half-tent covering the rearmost third of its length, or no tent at all, and it could carry between 2300 and 3200 kg.
A large, heavy vehicle with low sides, used for the conveyance of goods and drawn usually by a team of between fourteen and eighteen oxen.
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