wagoner

See also: Wagoner

English

Alternative forms

• waggoner, wagonner

Etymology

wagon +‎ -er

Noun

wagoner (plural wagoners)

1. Someone who drives a wagon.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,
     Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;
     And then I’ll come and be thy waggoner,
     And whirl along with thee about the globe.

   • 1819, William Wordsworth, The Waggoner, Canto I, lines 23-25,^[1]

     ’Tis Benjamin the Waggoner;

     Who long hath trod this toilsome way,

     Companion of the night and day.

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 1,^[2]

     That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,–the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint!

Synonyms

• waggoneer
• wagoneer

Derived terms

• Northern Waggoner

Translations

Someone who drives a wagon

• Bulgarian: каруцар m (karucar)
• Polish: woźnica (pl) m, furman (pl) m
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• Russian: изво́зчик (ru) m (izvózčik), возни́ца (ru) (vozníca)

Anagrams

• waroeng