WAGGONER

, in Astronomy, is the constellation Ursa Major, or the Great Bear, called also vulgarly Charles's Wain.

Waggoner is also used for a routier, or book of charts, describing the seas, their coasts, &c.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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WARGENTIN (Peter)
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WATER