Dictionary

wagoner en · NOUN

Etymology

From wagon + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who drives a wagon.
   • That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,–the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint! 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 1:
   • Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge, Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels; And then I’ll come and be thy waggoner, And whirl along with thee about the globe. c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
   • Places, then, being taken for Esther and me in the Chester waggon, I pass over a very immaterial scene of leave-taking, at which I droped a few tears betwixt grief and joy; and, for the same reasons of insignificance, skip over all that happened to me on the road, such as the waggoner’s looking liquorish on me, the schemes laid for me by some of the passengers, which were defeated by the valiance of my guardian Esther […] 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
   • 1819, William Wordsworth, The Waggoner, Canto I, lines 23-25, ’Tis Benjamin the Waggoner; Who long hath trod this toilsome way, Companion of the night and day.
   • Near-synonyms: wagonman, wainman, wagonmaster, carter, cartman, lorryman
   • He met a waggoner and tried to make him understand, but the tale he told and his appearance were so wild—his hat had fallen off in the pit—that the man simply drove on. 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 2, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, (please specify the page number(s)):
2. Someone who drives a wagon. ▸ One who transports the mined material away from the face in wagons.

Forms

Deriveds

Northern Waggoner

Relateds

wagonmaker · wainwright · wagonwright

Synonyms

cartman · wagoneer · lorryman · wagonman · wainman · wagonmaster · wagonmaster · wagonman · cartman · wainman · waggoneer · wagoneer · carter · carter · lorryman · waggoneer

Translations (12)

grc ἁμαξηλάτης (Someone who drives a wagon) · de Fuhrfrau (Someone who drives a wagon) · el αμαξηλάτης (Someone who drives a wagon) · pl woźnica (Someone who drives a wagon) · de Fuhrmann (Someone who drives a wagon) · el αμαξάς (Someone who drives a wagon) · ru возни́ца (Someone who drives a wagon) · el καροτσέρης (Someone who drives a wagon) · bg каруцар (Someone who drives a wagon) · eo ĉaristo (Someone who drives a wagon) · pl furman (Someone who drives a wagon) · ru изво́зчик (Someone who drives a wagon)