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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No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
If he must fain sweep o'er the ethereal plain, And Pegasus runs restive in his "Waggon," Could he not beg the loan of Charles's Wain?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
The Great Bear is one of the constellations known from the oldest times; it is also sometimes called Charles's Wain, the Dipper, or the Plough.
From The Children's Book of Stars by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
The seven stars of Charles's Wain, showing the directions in which they are travelling.
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
The Pole-star is really the front horse of a small imitation of Charles's Wain, which, however, has never been called by any special name, but only part of the "Little Bear."
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
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