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wagonerwaggonern.1

Brit. /ˈwaɡənə/, /ˈwaɡn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈwæɡənər/
Forms: Also 1500s wagenner, 1600s waggonere, waggonier, waggouner.
Etymology: < wagon n. + -er suffix1; perhaps originally < Dutch waghenaer (now wagenaar) of equivalent formation.
1.
a. One who has charge of a wagon as driver. Corps of Wagoners (Military); see quots. 1802, 1810.
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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.
attributive.1898 ‘M. Gray’ Ribstone Pippins iii. 79 Oh, the waggoner boy hath a life of joy.
b. jocular. The driver of a vehicle.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
2. The driver of a chariot, a charioteer. Chiefly with mythological reference. Obsolete.Frequently applied to Phœbus or to Phaethon as charioteer of the sun.
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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.
figurative.1621 T. Bedford Sinne unto Death 29 Spurred..on by two most passionate Waggoners, Feare and Envie.
3. (With capital initial.)
a. The northern constellation auriga n.
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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.].
b. Applied to the constellation Boötes, viewed as the driver of ‘Charles's Wain’. Obsolete.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈwaɡənə/, /ˈwaɡn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈwæɡənər/
Etymology: Anglicized form of the Dutch surname Waghenaer: see below.
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.
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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.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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