ice wagon
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9.9
- noun
- /aɪs ˈwæɡən/
- Archaic
:
carro de hielo
- Hey, where'd ya get de ice wagon?
Examples
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During the hot summer days, we eagerly awaited the arrival of the ice wagon to cool us off with fresh ice.
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Down the alley, the ice wagon flew.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sometimes I'd be in the house with the Mills kids, and the ice man would come over in his ice wagon.
Fiction book (1994) -
The clop-clop of hooves sounded in my mind as I imagined the ice wagon leaving off its entire load at the McNeer doorstep so that this perfection might be accomplished.
Fiction book (1991) -
As a child, I loved to watch the horse-drawn ice wagon deliver blocks of ice to our neighborhood.
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The sound of the horse's hooves echoed as the ice wagon made its way down the street, stopping at every house.
Synonyms
A wagon pulled by horses that delivered blocks of ice to houses
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'ice wagon' is compositionally built from 'ice' + 'wagon' and directly denotes a wagon used for carrying or delivering ice; a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer this purpose. Although the item is historically dated, the noun+noun construction and the literal material/purpose relation are transparent and cross-linguistically common, so the meaning is predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Ice wagon comes from the simple picture of a horse-drawn wagon carrying big blocks of ice to houses before refrigerators existed. People would hear the noisy ice wagon and come out to buy ice or children would chase it for chips, so the name now just means the vehicle that delivered ice.