wain

IPA: wˈeɪn

noun

  • (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
  • A surname.
  • A village in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
  • Alternative form of wean [(Scotland, Ulster) A small child.]
  • (astronomy) Short for Charles' Wain. [(astronomy) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a wagon or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the seven stars Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Megrez, Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid.]

verb

  • (rare, transitive) To carry.
  • Misspelling of wane. [(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.]
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Examples of "wain" in Sentences

  • One may look up hay and wain on iktionary.
  • Digendra tried to shoot with the pistol but in wain.
  • End of Celtic year is the last sliver of a waining moon.
  • Obsolete terms for chariot include chair, charet and wain.
  • Circulation has wained with the declining population of the area.
  • Right now there's alot of public interest, but it will in fact wain.
  • My thoughts would be that such interpretations are on the wain anyway.
  • That practice ended in the 1970s when the school's prestige began to wain.
  • So foreign was this rampant freedom of speech and expression that Wain initially thought it was some kind of trap.

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