Northern Waggoner en · PROPN
Meanings
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(obsolete) The Big Dipper.
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,
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:
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 1-5, page 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Northern Waggoner | canonical | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Charles' Wain · Drinking Gourd · Plough · Big Dipper · Northern Ladle · Wain