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▪ I. wagoner, waggoner1|ˈwægənə(r)|
Also 6 wagenner, 7 waggonere, -ier, waggouner.
[f. wagon n. + -er1; perh. orig. a. Du. waghenaer (now wagenaar) of equivalent formation.]
1. One who has charge of a wagon as driver.
Corps of Wagoners (Mil.); see quots. 1802, 1810.
1544in Rymer Foedera (1719) XV. 57 Dyvers Carts taken..and Wagenners slain. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 47 Thei wer in numbre had .lx. M. horsemen..beside footemen pages and wagoners. 1563Golding Cæsar iv. 104 b, In the meanewhile the wagoners withdrawe themselues somewhat out of the battell, and set their wagons in such order, that [etc.]. 1645Papers rel. Army Solemn League & Cov. (S.H.S.) II. 502 Williame Rosse waggounr. Ibid., Payed..for the mantanence of the train of waggoniers and horses 0,028 12 00. 1752Phil. Trans. XLVII. 561 Two waggoners were run over by a waggon loaded with stone. 1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v. Wagoner, Corps of Wagoners, a body of men employed in the commissariate, so called. 1810Ibid. (ed. 3), Corps of Wagoners, or royal Wagon corps, a body of men originally employed in the train under the board of ordnance. It now forms a part of the regular army, and is subject to the quartermaster general. 1824Barnewall & Cresswell Rep. K.B. II. 718 It was impossible for the said S. C. Marsh, if his waggoner or book keeper put any thing in the waggon at Thetford or on the road, to know of it. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 610 The waggoners drove off at full speed, and never stopped till they were many miles from the field of battle. 1870Daily News 3 Oct., Carters and waggoners of every sort were helping the good work.
attrib.1898‘Maxwell Gray’ Ribstone Pippins iii. 79 Oh, the waggoner boy hath a life of joy.
b. jocular. The driver of a vehicle.
1841J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins I. ii. 59 ‘Now,’ said Tom, ‘tumble in, old fellow: I'm waggoner—you pay pikes.’ 1850Smedley F. Fairlegh xiii, We hired a drag... The first day we went out they elected me waggoner, and a nice job I had of it.
c. Used as the designation of a particular class of farm servant, whose special duties include the driving of a wagon: see quot. 1908. Also called a carter.
1790W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. Midl. II. 445 Waggoner; an upper man servant; carter. 1804A. Hunter Georgical Ess. V. 501 (E.D.D.) The waggoner or head ploughman pays an early regard to his horses. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. 316 The waggoners travel with great economy. 1908Daily Mail 6 Apr. 6/5 The chief duty of the ‘wagoner’ [Lincs.], despite his name, is to cultivate the arable land... Wagoners also take the threshed corn to the nearest town in wagons (the occupation from which they take their name, though it is one of their least important duties).
d. Mining. (See quots.)
1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 70 Waggoner, a man in charge of a horse who arranges railway trucks in pit sidings. 1900Daily News 9 Feb. 3/2 Sometimes the lads and youths who look after the trucks in the main roads are called waggoners.
†2. The driver of a chariot, a charioteer. Chiefly with mythological reference. Obs.
Frequently applied to Phœbus or to Phaethon as charioteer of the sun.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. ii. 48 And then Ile come and be thy Waggoner, And whirle along with thee about the Globes. 1592― Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 64 Her Waggoner, a smal gray-coated Gnat. 1603Dekker & Chettle Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 9 Look how yon one-ey'd waggoner of heaven Hath by his horses' fiery-winged hoofs, Burst ope the melancholy jail of night. 1614Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 8 Elias, auriga in aëre, was a wagoner in the aire, rode in a chariot, through the cloudes. 1636C. Fitzgeffrey Holy Transport. (1881) 169 Now seemes the Sunnes vnwearied Waggonere, Who every day surrounds this earthly sphere, To make a stand. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 61 The fierce winged beasts..throw the unexperienced waggoner headlong downe with waggon and all.
fig.1621T. Bedford Sin unto Death 29 Spurred..on by two most passionate Waggoners, Feare and Envie.
3. (With capital initial.)
a. The northern constellation auriga.
†b. Applied to the constellation Boötes, viewed as the driver of ‘Charles's Wain’. Obs.
a.1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 248, I might conclude the discourse of Kiddes with a remembraunce of their constellation in the Waggoner, vppon the Bulles Horne. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 486 The ancient Constellations [include]..Auriga, The Waggoner. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 382 [The Milky Way] afterwards bears away under the form of a single and narrow branch, which traverses Cassiopea, passes by the Waggoner [etc.].
b.1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 1 By this the Northerne wagoner had set His seuenfold teme behind the stedfast starre. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 318 Begin when the slow Waggoner descends, Nor cease your sowing till Mid⁓winter ends.
4. A wagon-horse; in quot. a depreciatory term for a racehorse.
1859Sporting Mag. Oct. 241 Magnum, the Baron's chesnut waggoner, wore huge blinkers.
▪ II. wagoner, waggoner2 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈwægənə(r)|
Also with capital initial.
[Anglicized form of the Dutch surname Waghenaer: see below.]
Originally, the atlas of charts published by Lucas Janssen Waghenaer in 1584 under the title Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (Eng. trans. The Mariners Mirror, by Sir A. Ashley, 1588). Hence gen. a book of charts for nautical use.
1687W. Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 246 Y⊇ Shippe Providence ran aground, her Commander designing to go between y⊇ Islands Sardinia and Palma de Sol, where y⊇ English Platts and Wagones [read Wagoners] make a large passage; but in truth there is none. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 98 In the East India Waggoner or Pilot-book there is mention made of large Fowls. 1775Romans Hist. Florida App. 77 The compilers of the quarter waggoners..have corrupted it into Ponio bay. 1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Waggoner, is also used for a routier, or book of charts, describing the seas, their coasts, &c. 1916Edin. Rev. July 180 [Sailing directions] have been called by many names—Periploi, Portulane, Rutters, Waggoners [etc.]. |