Noun: buckwagon
| Singular | buckwagon |
| Plural | buckwagons |
Sample Sentences
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Upon each loaded buck-wagon, drawn by any sort of animals, not exceeding sixteen in number £0.17s.6d. [1871, "An Act to Promote the Construction of a Bridge or Bridges over the Orange River", Cape of Good Hope]
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...while on the remaining days of the week a two-horse buck-wagon or hack is used. [1880, B.B. Simms, “Post-Office Deficiencies § Texas”, in United States congressional serial set, page 304:]
Nouns inflected like buckwagon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Afrikaans bok (“buck; goat”) and English wagon. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Middle English bouk (“belly”) or Old English buc (“buck; deer”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bouk', Old English Nouns '
buc'.