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Northern Waggoner
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Proper noun
1 Northern Waggoner
en constellation obsolete The Big Dipper.
I II 1 1-5 By this the Northerne wagoner had setHis sevenfold teme° behind the stedfast starre,That was in Ocean waves yet never wet,But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farreTo 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,
en Big Dipper Charles' Wain obsolete Britain Drinking Gourd obsolete USA Northern Ladle Asia Plough Britain Wain obsolete Britain