Northern Waggoner

English
Northern Waggoner

Proper noun

Northern Waggoner

  1. (astronomy, obsolete) The Big Dipper.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 1-5, page 1:
      By this the Northerne wagoner had set
      His sevenfold teme° behind the stedfast starre,
      That was in Ocean waves yet never wet,
      But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre
      To all that in the wide deepe wandring arre:
    • 1613, Thomas Heywood, An Epithalamion, or Nuptiall Song, A Marriage Triumph on the Nuptials of the Prince Palatine, and the Princess Elizabeth, Daughter of James I, London: Reprinted for the Percy Society, 1842, p. 8,
      The Northern Waggoner stands next in the roll,
      Whom Perseus with his shield frights ’bout the pole,
    Synonyms: Big Dipper, (obsolete Britain) Charles' Wain, (obsolete USA) Drinking Gourd, (Asia) Northern Ladle, (Britain) Plough, (obsolete Britain) Wain
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