Meaning of Northern Waggoner | Babel Free

Definitions

The Big Dipper.

obsolete

Examples

“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,”

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