Hist. a heavy, springless, horse-drawn wagon of a type used for hauling lumber.
- 1829  [In passing over them in a lumbering waggon, the poor human frame is jolted to pieces.]
- 1849  We now mounted a lumber waggon without springs, and jolted over a road which was rather trying for a lady.
- 1912  The stable yard attached to his hotel was lined three deep with buggies, carriages, and lumber waggons which had borne in the crowds of farmers from the country.
- 1961  They [in 1892] forded the North Saskatchewan River in a lumber wagon, and homesteaded at Sturgeon.