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Drinking Gourd
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Proper noun
1 Drinking Gourd
en constellation obsolete especially US A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
en Big Dipper Charles' Wain obsolete Britain Northern Ladle Asia Northern Waggoner obsolete Plough Britain Wain obsolete Britain
Usage notes
The star formation mainly went by this name during the early to mid nineteenth century in the Southern United States.