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Bain wagon [prob. after the maker-designer] Hist. 
a large freight wagon that was widely used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 1897 Largest stock in the province and best assortment American Bain wagons, also Canadian Bain suitable for freighting and farm purposes.
- 1934 Every few miles we would overtake strings of heavily laden Bain wagons hauled by horses, mules, or even oxen. . . .
- 1955 And from the north, east, west, and south, by horse and buggy, by democrat, in Bain wagons pulled by oxen, on horseback and on Shanks' mare, thousands of people flocked into the city.
- 1897 Largest stock in the province and best assortment American Bain wagons, also Canadian Bain suitable for freighting and farm purposes.