/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Northern Wagoner (The)
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Ursa Major, called “Charles’s wain,” or wagon. The constellation contains seven large stars. “King Charles’s Wain” is absurd. “Charlesʹ Wain” is a blunder for the “Churlsʹ or Peasantsʹ Wain.”
“By this the northern wagoner has set
His seven fold team behind the stedfast star [the pole-star].”
Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. 2.
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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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