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wain noun1 & verb.

A. noun.
= WAGON noun 1. Now arch. & poet. OE.
W. Cowper From the sun-burnt hay-field, homeward creeps The loaded wain.
b. A chariot. Chiefly poet. ME.
(Wain.) The Plough (PLOUGH noun 4). OE.
Lesser Wain the group of seven principal stars in Ursa Minor which resembles that of the Plough.
Comb.: wainman (obsolete exc. Hist.) = wainer; wainwright a wagon-builder.
B. verb trans. Carry or transport (as) in a wain. ME-E19.
wainer noun (rare) the driver of a wain, a wagoner ME.
wainful noun (rare) as much as a wain will hold E18.