[Sca-cooks] carts & wains

[Terry Decker]

The specific usage of wain for chariot is in reference to a four horse power 
conveyance.  In any case, a chariot is definitely not a passenger vehicle, 
it is a mobile weapons platform with a driver and a gunner.  Ain't nobody 
just along for the ride.

Bear

> Ah, but don't forget the earlier reference to chariots under the term,
> "Wain."  Chariots carry passengers, too....guys with bows and arrows and
> spears and so on.
>
> Hmmm...I wonder if I would be allowed to take one on the warfield...no, 
> that
> way lies madness.
>
> Again
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Well, the bicycles I'm familiar with have two axles, so they're possibly 
>> a
>> "half-wain."  Technically, I believe a car would be considered a 
>> "carriage"
>> as it hauls passengers, while the pick-up with the ton of SCA gear piled
>> high in the bed would be a "wain."
>>
>> Bear
>>
>>
>> So cars should properly be called 'wains' (rather than 'dragons', bleech)
>>> and those guys with the bicycles bringing pizza or Chinese
>>> are riding carts....
>>>
>>>
>>> Devra
>>>
>>>
>>> <As a general differentiation, carts have two wheels and a single axle
>>> while
>>> wains usually have four wheels and two axles.
>>>
>>> Bear>
>>>
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