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wainman|ˈweɪnmən|
Also 4 waynesman.
[f. wain n.1 + man.]
1. = wainer. Obs. exc. Hist.
1392Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 180 Duobus waynemen de Dansk pro eodem viagio, iiij marcz. pr. Cuidam waynesman de Dansk pro eodem viagio, ij. marcz. pr. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5833 Þe wayne men wer noȝt ware. 1580H. F. Pelegrom. Syn. Sylva 42 A Carter, a Waine man. Auriga [etc.]. 1609Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees) 154 Item paid to the wainmen that brought the lyme and sand for there drinkes, ix d. 1627Act 3 Chas. I, c. 2 §1 No Carrier with any Horse or Horses..nor Waynemen with anie Wayne or Waynes..shall..travell upon the said Day. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 193 The leaves..yield a strong thready substance..which is commonly used in ropes and whips by the wainmen in that part of the world. 1880F. G. Lee Ch. under Q. Eliz. I. 15 At Canterbury..a holy-oil stock was emptied of its sacred contents, in order to grease the creaking wheels of a wainman's cart.
†2. (With capital initial.) The constellation Boötes, regarded as the teamster of ‘Charles's Wain’. Obs.
1588A. Ashley Mariners Mirr. A 6 b, A catalogue of the more famous fixed starres... The Wainmans right shoulder. 1594Kyd Cornelia iii. i. 69 And now the sleepie Waineman softly droue His slow-pac'd Teeme. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 290 Besides these Twelve, toward the Artick side, A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears divide; After, the Wainman comes, the Crown, the Spear [etc.]. |