wagoner noun¹. ['wag(ǝ)nǝ] Also waggoner. M16.
[Dutch wagenaar, waghenaer, formed as WAGON noun: see -ER¹.]
1. The driver of a wagon. Formerly also, a farmhand whose specific duties included driving a wagon. M16.
b. The driver of any vehicle. joc. M19.
c. A person in charge of the trucks in a mine. L19.

2. The driver of a chariot. poet. L16-M17.

3. (Usu. Wagoner.) Orig., the constellation Boötes. Later, the constellation Auriga. Now rare. L16.

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wagoner noun². ['wag(ǝ)nǝ] obsolete exc. Hist. Also waggoner. L17.
[Anglicized from Dutch surname Waghenaer (see below).]
Orig., an atlas of nautical charts published by Lucas Janssen Waghenaer in 1584 under the title Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (English translation The Mariners Mirror, 1588). Later gen., any book of charts for nautical use.

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