Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
wagoner .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the driver of a wagon
Etymologies
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Examples
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As soon as he had committed himself, it was confided to the audience that the waggoner was a depraved villain, in the employ of that notorious profligate, Colonel Chartress, who had commissioned a second myrmidon
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His name means "waggoner," and a right good waggoner he that day proved to be.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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Then she gives it to some waggoner to fill the farmer's barns.
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He met a waggoner and tried to make him understand, but the tale he told and his appearance were so wild—his hat had fallen off in the pit—that the man simply drove on.
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The worthy waggoner, according to the established customs of all carriers, stage-coachmen, and other persons in public authority, from the earliest days to the present, never wanted good reasons for stopping upon the road, as often as he would; and the place which had most captivation for him as a resting-place was a change-house, as it was termed, not very distant from a romantic dell, well known by the name of Keirie Craigs.
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April 24th, 2006 at 11: 04 am ann waggoner says: wonder how many people died in iraq while dick napped.
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Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner.
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These the waggoner delivered to each of us respectively, reading the name aloud first.
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But he was soon up again, with the assistance of a rough waggoner whose team had stuck fast there too; and when we had helped him out of his difficulty, in return, we left him slowly ploughing towards them, and went slowly and swiftly forward, on the brink of a steep precipice, among the mountain pines.
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“Our postilion is looking after the waggoner,” said
bilby commented on the word waggoner
This word's just about a goner.
May 29, 2018