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the painting by Constable entitled "The Haywain". One of my favorites.
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Chicke mentioned the painting by Constable entitled "The Haywain". One of my favorites.
I have never heard the word "wain" used on its own. The only way I recognised it was from "The Haywain" - one of my favourites, also.
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In one of the funnier parts of "Bored of the Rings", Harvard Lampoon's much-abbreviated spoof on "Lord of the Rings", a sign is up on a bridge outside Rivendell which said (from memory): "Pedestrians: 1/2d Horses and riders: 1d Haywains: 1 1/2d Black Riders: 40 gold pieces" 
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Of course, then there's Elmer Fudd who would wear a waincoat out in the wain while riding in a wain.
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> I have never heard the word "wain" used on its own.
In isolation, Charles's Wain, also known as the Plough, the Great Bear, the Big Dipper, and probably quite a few others. I know I should call it the Plough but I always say Charles's Wain.
In compound: a wainwright. (And does Tolkien use Wainrider somewhere? Who were they... some warlike tribe from Rhun?)
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Hey, Nicholas, welcome back, Honey! Missed you.
I didn't get the wain AWAD, though I got today's: woof.
Is anybody else having oddities in transmissions?
I love today's quote:
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others. -John Andrew Holmes
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