Definitions for wains

wains wain

Spelling: [weyn]
IPA: /weɪn/

Wains is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in wains (ainsw).

Definitions for wains

noun

  1. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
  2. a farm wagon or cart.

Origin of wains

before 900; Middle English; Old English wægn, wǣn, cognate with Dutch wagen, German Wagen. See weigh1

Examples for wains

Those chariots, to the axle-trees of which scythes were fixed, were called covini, or wains.

Bless his wife an' wains, bless them in basket an' store an' take good care of his oul mare.

They bade the game which Siegfried's hand had slain, be carried home on wains.

The wains stopped; the pedestrians halted and gaped and gasped.

Most of us are away with the wains, and others make holiday.

The narrow streets are blocked with the wains bringing down, in boxes of every shape and size, the up-country rough leaf.

"Maybe Mrs. Boyle an' th' wains are as hungry as we are," Anna remarked.

They shove the Worm over the cliff into the sea, and bear off the treasure in wains.

In the train of wains laden with supplies a man lay on top of the goods.

Then men leaped on their horses, and their women were set in wains.

Word Value for wains
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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