wagoner
Americannoun
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a person who drives a wagon.
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Astronomy. Wagoner, the northern constellation Auriga.
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Obsolete. a charioteer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of wagoner
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He was a wagoner in a supply company with the 372nd, meaning he was responsible for loading horse-drawn transports.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
If John Pronando had selected the daughter of a flat-boat man on the Ohio River, or of a Pennsylvania mountain wagoner, they might have accepted her—at a distance—and made the best of her.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
"I have a wagoner here, and my own black—let me step to the inn, and order them to get ready for us."
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
One of these companies was commanded by Captain Daniel Morgan, a native of New Jersey, whose first experience in war had been to accompany Braddock's army as a wagoner.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
The wagon was drawn by six horses, one before another, and beside them walked the wagoner clothed in black and appointed in all things like another Saint George.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
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