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单词 wainman
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wainmann.

/ˈweɪnmən/
Forms: Also Middle English waynesman.
Etymology: < wain n.1 + man n.1
1. = wainer n. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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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
1392 Earl 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.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5833 Þe wayne men wer noȝt ware.
1580 H. F. tr. S. Pelegromius Synonymorum Sylua 42/2 A Carter, a Waine man. Auriga [etc.].
1609 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 154 Item paid to the wainmen that brought the lyme and sand for there drinkes, ix d.
1627 Act 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.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 193 The leaves [sic]..yields a strong thready substance..which is commonly used in ropes and whips by the wainmen in that part of the world.
1880 F. G. Lee Church under Q. Elizabeth 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’. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Boötes
Arcturusc1374
bearward?c1475
Arthur's hufea1522
wainman1588
wagoner1590
Boötes1656
1588 A. Ashley tr. L. J. Wagenaer Mariners Mirrour A 6 b A catalogue of the more famous fixed starres... The Wainmans right shoulder.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. i. 69 And now the sleepie Waineman softly droue His slow-pac'd Teeme.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 124 Besides these Twelue, towards the Artike side, A flaming Dragon doth Two Bears deuide, After, the Waine-man comes, the Crowne, the Speare [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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