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Noun: wain  weyn
Usage: archaic
  1. Large open farm wagon
Noun: Wain
  1. English writer (1925-1994)
    - John Wain, John Barrington Wain
     
  2. A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
    - Big Dipper [N. Amer], Dipper, Plough [Brit], Charles's Wain, Wagon

Sounds like: Wales, wales, wails, whalese, wain

Derived forms: wains

Type of: asterism, author, waggon, wagon, writer

Part of: Great Bear, Ursa Major

Encyclopedia: Wain, John