Charles's Wain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Charles's Wain
before 1000; Old English Carles wægn Carl's wagon ( Carl for Charlemagne); see wain
Example Sentences
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Charles's Wain, the constellation of Ursa Major, a wagon without a wagoner.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
And Charles's Wain, the wondrous seven, And sheep-flock clouds like worlds of wool.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
Now, although most people know Charles's Wain when they see it, we may still learn a good deal about it.
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
The constellation of the Great Bear, generally associated with Odin, is Karlswagen in German, and Charles’s Wain in English.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
For this reason I prefer the country people's name of Charles's Wain or Waggon to that of the "Plough," which astronomers generally give to these seven stars.
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
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