1850  Jonathan it was, and he brought us good news,--that we must walk some couple of miles to a farm-house, where a spring-waggon, well filled with straw, would be ready to carry us on to Kingston, then eight or nine miles distant.
1880  The light waggon . . . the two-horse spring waggon similar to the ordinary "democrat" waggon of Ontario, and the double buck-board are the greatest favourites.
1950  The ground about the stables was so jammed with strange horses, democrats, buckboards and spring wagons that they could hardly reach them.