Sunday, January 10, 2010

Wagoner

A wagon driver. A farm servant, who in addition to ploughing the fields, takes produce to market in a wagon.

"Look how yon one-eyed waggoner of heaven Hath by his horses' fiery-winged hoofs, Burst ope the melancholy jail of night."

Thomas Dekker and H. Chettle, Patient Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) (1603)

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