Northern Waggoner
English
Northern Waggoner
Proper noun
Northern Waggoner
- (astronomy, obsolete) The Big Dipper.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, 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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