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wain
[ weyn ]
Wain
1/ weɪn /
noun
- WainJohn (Barrington)19251994MBritishWRITING: novelistWRITING: poetWRITING: critic John ( Barrington ). 1925–94, British novelist, poet, and critic. His novels include Hurry on Down (1953), Strike the Father Dead (1962), and Young Shoulders (1982)
wain
2/ weɪn /
noun
- poetic.a farm wagon or cart
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of wain1
Example Sentences
Read more reviews by Stephanie ZacharekThere are ways in which The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is likely to attract the damning judgment of being a “conventional biopic.”
La Wain remembered first being offered the box by Hardeen after a show in New Orleans.
Wain, who reunites with co-writer Michael Showalter, penned the first script for They Came Together in 2001.
Turpin treated him as he had done the dub at the knapping jigger, and cleared the driver and his little wain with ease.
The carts, which ply for hire like cabs, are massive, springless tumbrils covered with a wain.
"Mr. Herbert Wain did not seem to accept the idea of immortality with any pleasure," I muttered.
Wain was a smooth customer who bugged his eyes and lost some of his tan when he saw the sheaf of bills.
I have Charles's-wain below in a butt of sack: 'twill glister like your crab-fish.
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