cracky wagon

English

Noun

cracky wagon (plural cracky wagons)

  1. (US, Western Pennsylvania) A one-horse wagon without springs.
    • 1936, August 18, The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, volume 10, Section 4, Page 16
      They knew the lineage of all the boys and girls who crowded into old cracky wagons, rode four to a horse or footed it out to the lake.

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References

  • Dialect notes, Volume 1, American Dialect Society
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