Definition of "wain"

wain¹

/weɪn/

noun
plural wains
1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
  Quotations
  Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out.
  1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, book V, page 40
verb
third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained
1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

/ˈwiː(ə)n/