单词 | wagoner |
释义 | wagonerwaggonern.1 1. a. One who has charge of a wagon as driver. Corps of Wagoners (Military); see quots. 1802, 1810. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of wagon wainman1392 wainera1500 wagoner1544 wagon-man1589 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > administration and supply branches baggage1603 field train1692 Corps of Wagoners1802 wagon-corps1810 subsistence department1820 baggage-train1841 rear echelon1852 Control Department1867 Army Service Corps1869 A.S.C.1871 pay corps1876 Q1916 echelon1922 1544 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1719) XV. 57 Dyvers Carts taken..and Wagenners slain. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlvij Thei wer in numbre had .lx.M.horsemen..beside footemen pages and wagoners. 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iv. f. 104v In the meanewhile the wagoners withdrawe themselues somewhat out of the battell, and set their wagons in such order, that [etc.]. 1645 Papers rel. Army Solemn League & Cov. (S.H.S.) II. 502 Williame Rosse waggounr. 1645 Papers rel. Army Solemn League & Cov. (S.H.S.) II. 502 Payed..for the mantanence of the train of waggoniers and horses 0,028 12 00. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 561 Two waggoners were run over by a waggon loaded with stone. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Wagoner Corps of Wagoners, a body of men employed in the commissariate, so called. 1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (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. 1824 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 2 718 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. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 610 The waggoners drove off at full speed, and never stopped till they were many miles from the field of battle. 1870 Daily News 3 Oct. 6/2 Carters and waggoners of every sort were helping the good work. b. jocular. The driver of a vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] driver?c1450 leader1497 Jehu1694 wagoner1841 car boy1843 pilot1926 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins I. ii. 59 ‘Now,’ said Tom, ‘tumble in, old fellow: I'm waggoner—you pay pikes.’ 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xiii. 120 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > wagoner cartera1250 wagoner1790 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 445 Waggoner, an upper man servant; carter. 1804 J. Bannister in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. V. xxxi. 501 The waggoner or head ploughman pays an early regard to his horses. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 316 The waggoners travel with great economy. 1908 Daily 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.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > other specific mine workers chipper1747 blaster1776 tributor1778 striker1824 shifter1830 bandsman1852 back-shift1860 drifter1864 metal man1883 stower1886 wagoner1886 hard rock1922 beacher1923 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 70 Waggoner, a man in charge of a horse who arranges railway trucks in pit sidings. 1900 Daily News 9 Feb. 3/2 Sometimes the lads and youths who look after the trucks in the main roads are called waggoners. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of a chariot carterc1374 charioteer1382 charet-man1535 chariot-man1577 coachman1582 charet-driver1591 wagoner1594 chareter1610 jockeya1719 chariot-driver1769 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. ii. 48 And then Ile come and be thy wagoner, And wherle along with thee about the Globes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 65 Her waggoner is a small gray coated flie. View more context for this quotation 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. A2 Looke how yon one ey'd wagoner of heauen, Hath by his horses fiery winged hoofes, Burst ope the melancholy Iayle of Night. 1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 8 Elias, auriga in aëre, was a wagoner in the aire, rode in a chariot, through the cloudes. 1634 C. Fitzgeffry Holy Raptvres i, in Blessed Birth-day 37 Now seemes the Sunnes vnwearied Waggonere, Who every day surrounds this Earthly Sphere, To Make a stand. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 61 The fierce winged beasts..throw the unexperienced waggoner headlong downe with waggon and all. 3. (With capital initial.) a. The northern constellation auriga n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Auriga wagoner1607 agitator1623 auriga1868 charioteer1885 Aur1922 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 248 I might conclude the discourse of Kiddes with a remembraunce of their constellation in the Waggoner, vppon the Bulles Horne. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 486 The ancient Constellations [include]..Auriga, The Waggoner. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin 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.]. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Boötes Arcturusc1374 bearward?c1475 Arthur's hufea1522 wainman1588 wagoner1590 Boötes1656 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B3 By this the Northerne wagoner had set His seuenfold teme behind the stedfast starre. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Begin when the slow Waggoner descends, Nor cease your sowing till Mid-winter ends. View more context for this quotation 4. A wagon-horse; in quot. 1859 a depreciatory term for a racehorse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse runnera1500 match horse1607 racehorse1607 racer1629 race naga1635 wagoner1859 neddy1887 pony1896 bang-tail1921 1859 Sporting Mag. Oct. 241 Magnum, the Baron's chesnut waggoner, wore huge blinkers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wagonerwaggonern.2 Obsolete exc. Historical. Also with capital initial. Originally, the atlas of charts published by Lucas Janssen Waghenaer in 1584 under the title Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (English translation The Mariners Mirror, by Sir A. Ashley, 1588). Hence gen. a book of charts for nautical use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > pilot book rutter1561 sea-ruttier1599 routier1677 wagoner1687 pilot1693 portolan1717 sea-book1726 norie1827 1687 W. Hedges Diary 3 Feb. (1887) I. 246 Ye Shippe Providence ran aground, her Commander designing to go between ye Islands Sardinia and Palma de Sol, where ye English Platts and Wagones [read Wagoners] make a large passage; but in truth there is none. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 98 In the East-India Waggoner, or Pilot-book, there is mention made of large Fowls. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 77 The compilers of the quarter waggoners..have corrupted it into Ponio bay. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Waggoner, is also used for a routier, or book of charts, describing the seas. 1916 Edinb. Rev. July 180 [Sailing directions] have been called by many names—Periploi, Portulane, Rutters, Waggoners [etc.]. 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