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.]
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.