Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

northern waggoner

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: north-ern wag-goner
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Big Dipper.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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,"

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

the Northern Waggoner (canonical)

Synonyms

Big Dipper Charles' Wain Drinking Gourd Northern Ladle Plough Wain

Questions

What does northern waggoner mean?: The Big Dipper.

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