ice-wagon
IPA: ˈaɪswægʌn
noun
- (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door
ice wagon
IPA: ˈaɪswægʌn
noun
- (historical) A wagon used for carrying ice.
- (baseball slang) A very slow player.
Examples of "ice-wagon" in Sentences
- Even more, he was irritated by a suspicion of the ice-wagon driver.
- "'Member how we crawled in the empty ice-wagon once?" she asked Freddie.
- First, that I was not any good, second that I couldn't tackle, and third that I ran like an ice-wagon.
- He crawled down again and sought out the janitress, who stopped watching an ice-wagon in the street to say:
- Now it was a slow car that managed to roll along "like an ice-wagon," as Thad laughingly called out on going ahead.
- As he did this an ice-wagon came along at a furious speed, the driver on the seat trying in vain to stop his horse.
- The ice-wagon was heading directly for the child and unless something was done the little one would be run over and most likely killed.
- He saw that the horse attached to the ice-wagon could not be stopped and realized only too well what it meant should he be struck down.
- Clinging to the little one, he flung himself backward, and like a flash the horse sprang past, dragging the ice-wagon so close that the wheels scraped his leg.
- As the time passed, I worked as boy-helper on an ice-wagon, set up pins in a bowling alley with a saloon attached, and swept out saloons at Sunday picnic grounds.