Northern Waggoner

Northern Waggoner

1. (astronomy, obsolete) The Big Dipper.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto II, Stanza 1, lines 1-5,

     By this the Northerne wagoner had set

     His sevenfold teme° behind the stedfast starre,

     That was in Ocean waves yet never wet,

     But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre

     To all that in the wide deepe wandring arre:

   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, An Epithalamion, or Nuptiall Song, A Marriage Triumph on the Nuptials of the Prince Palatine, and the Princess Elizabeth, Daughter of James I, London: Reprinted for the Percy Society, 1842, p. 8,

     The Northern Waggoner stands next in the roll,

     Whom Perseus with his shield frights ’bout the pole,