Crossword clues for station wagon
station wagon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A vehicle providing transport to and from a railway station.
WordNet
n. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat [syn: beach wagon, wagon, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon]
Wikipedia
A station wagon, also called an estate car, estate wagon, or simply wagon or estate, is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate or tailgate), instead of a trunk lid. The body style transforms a standard three-box design into a two-box design — to include an A, B, and C-pillar, as well as a D-pillar. Station wagons can flexibly reconfigure their interior volume via fold-down rear seats to prioritize either passenger or cargo volume.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a station wagon as "an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate."
When a model range includes multiple body styles, such as sedan, hatchback and station wagon, the models typically share their platform, drivetrain and bodywork forward of the A-pillar. In 1969, Popular Mechanics said, "Station wagon-style ... follows that of the production sedan of which it is the counterpart. Most are on the same wheelbase, offer the same transmission and engine options, and the same comfort and convenience options."
Station wagons have evolved from their early use as specialized vehicles to carry people and luggage to and from a train station, and have been marketed worldwide.
Usage examples of "station wagon".
A police car, without sirens, had pulled up to the curb behind an equally official-looking white station wagon.
On the basis that not to be moved by it would require a heart of stone, the six men hi the station wagon had between them, it was clear, the makings of a fair-sized quarry.
Dean shrugged, moving the line of flares, and then Roscoe Rules stood quietly on the far side of the station wagon, hoping the fire trucks or another ambulance wouldn't get there too quickly and spoil things.
He stuck a pipe in his mouth to complete the picture and went out to get the station wagon, which was dirty enough by now to add to the general picture.
There was that station wagon with the yellow wheels, and there was a coupé.
He correctly described her car as a dark blue Volkswagen station wagon with a square back and recalled where she had parked it.
A figure in rags ducked down behind the wreckage of a Chevy station wagon.
I took her to the station wagon, put her in the passenger's side, and made her promise to stay there for a few more minutes.
He went from school to school in a Buick station wagon loaded with textbooks and he went hunting for a week in November every year with my father and my father's friends, up in the Allagash.
They came to a station wagon that had only one flat shoe, it could be changed, but like the Chevy sedan, Tom reported it only had two pedals.