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Northern Waggoner

Northern Waggoner proper noun: the Big Dipper.

northern waggoner: the Big Dipper
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Proper noun

the Northern Waggoner

  1. (obsolete) The Big Dipper.
    • 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
    • The Northern Waggoner stands next in the roll,
      Whom Perseus with his shield frights ’bout the pole,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...

Synonyms of Northern Waggoner

Questions about Northern Waggoner

What does Northern Waggoner mean?
Northern Waggoner means the Big Dipper.
What part of speech is Northern Waggoner?
Northern Waggoner is a proper noun.

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