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The constellation called the Great Bear, which forms the outline of a wheelbarrow or rustic wagon. “Charles” is a corruption of the word churles, the farmer’s wagon. (Anglo-Saxon, ceorles wœn.)
⁂ Sometimes still further corrupted into “King Charles’s wain.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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