The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wagonette \Wag`on*ette"\, n. A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
Wiktionary
n. A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
Wikipedia
A wagonette (little wagon) is a small horsecar with springs, which has two benches along the right and left side of the platform, people facing each other. The driver sits on a separate, front-facing bench. A wagonette may be open or have a tilt. A large horse-drawn enclosed vehicle with spring-suspension, a similar arrangement of the seats and obligatory ceiling is called an omnibus.
The 1914 book Motor Body-building in All Its Branches by Christopher William Terry, defined a shooting-brake as a wagonette provided with game and gun racks and accommodation for ammunition.
Usage examples of "wagonette".
Schwester Maria drove the wagonette as I had seen her so many times before, looking like a big black crow in her flapping black robes, sitting there holding in the horse with a masterly touch which was surprising.
During his lifetime, he must have taken the wagonette full of girls up to the plateau many times.
Immediately after breakfast Lord Yalding called with a wagonette that wore a smart blue cloth coat, and was drawn by two horses whose coats were brown and shining and fitted them even better than the blue cloth coat fitted the wagonette, and the whole party drove in state and splendour to Yalding Towers.
John will stay here with the bags in case the wagonette turns up, and I will ride to Brookfield and summon help.
Giraffe was carefully fixing a mattress and pillows on the floor of a wagonette, and presently a man, who looked like a corpse, was carried out and lifted into the trap.
On hearing that the beautiful Madame de la Baudraye was Jan Diaz, the Parisians went to spend three days at Anzy, fetched in a sort of wagonette driven by Gatien himself.
The Giraffe was carefully fixing a mattress and pillows on the floor of a wagonette, and presently a man, who looked like a corpse, was carried out and lifted into the trap.
Arriving three weeks ago, for his final leave before he should go out, he had found a girl sitting in a little wagonette outside the station, and had known his fate at once.
At last the wagonette swung round an incredibly sharp turn and rumbled between two granite posts--long since denuded of the gate which had once swung between them--pulling up in front of a low, two-storied house, which seemed to convey a pleasant sense of welcome, as some houses do.
She was very quiet and selfcontained, and busied herself in making the necessary arrangements for their departure, sending a boy into Ashencombe to order the wagonette from the Crown and Bells to take them to the station whilst she herself laboriously made out the account that was owing.
He told of a January morning when he was nineteen and very gay and the local lads had clubbed to hire the wagonette for the Garlow races.
It was a little like a wagonette, a little like a lorry and a little like a car.
A dusty wagonette crammed full of townspeople, probably going to visit the shrine, drove by along the main road.
The wagonette was hardly out of sight when a light chaise with a pair of horses came into view.
Aunt Mandy on the train, and two or three of the older girls with the wagonette from the convent will meet you.