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单词 wagoner
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Definition of wagoner in English:

wagoner

(British waggoner)
noun ˈwaɡ(ə)nəˈwæɡənər
  • The driver of a horse-drawn wagon.

    马车夫

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The wagoner's job was to load the wagon with feed for the regiment's horses and mules and to drive it.
    • Only a few men were hired, waggoners ranging from £18 to £22.
    • By the early 1850s clashes between Indians and wagoners were so common that the travelers often took great pains to hide burials in unmarked graves in the middle of the trail.
    • Unions between Spanish men and Indian women produced mestizo offspring, who grew into the artisans and laborers of colonial towns or the herdspeople and wagoners of the early countryside.
    • The Fort Meade monthly report does not record the names of the mission's enlisted men, but it is unlikely a wagoner and cook would have been left behind on a long march.
    • These were the haunts of the pawn brokers and the money lenders, of wagoners and bootleg whiskey makers, of whores and pimps and opium dealers.
    • The wagoners were terrified and whipped the oxen into charging.
    • His father, Robert, was a waggoner with Bowman's Removals, in York.
    • ‘Okay, let's get going now,’ Sterling urged as he went up to the wagoner's seat, ready to take off.
    • He was many years horse feeder and waggoner for the late William Jackson, stage wagon proprietor of Fairburn.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Dutch wagenaar, from wagen (see wagon).

Definition of wagoner in US English:

wagoner

(British waggoner)
nounˈwæɡənərˈwaɡənər
  • The driver of a horse-drawn wagon.

    马车夫

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the early 1850s clashes between Indians and wagoners were so common that the travelers often took great pains to hide burials in unmarked graves in the middle of the trail.
    • He was many years horse feeder and waggoner for the late William Jackson, stage wagon proprietor of Fairburn.
    • These were the haunts of the pawn brokers and the money lenders, of wagoners and bootleg whiskey makers, of whores and pimps and opium dealers.
    • The wagoner's job was to load the wagon with feed for the regiment's horses and mules and to drive it.
    • Only a few men were hired, waggoners ranging from £18 to £22.
    • His father, Robert, was a waggoner with Bowman's Removals, in York.
    • The wagoners were terrified and whipped the oxen into charging.
    • Unions between Spanish men and Indian women produced mestizo offspring, who grew into the artisans and laborers of colonial towns or the herdspeople and wagoners of the early countryside.
    • ‘Okay, let's get going now,’ Sterling urged as he went up to the wagoner's seat, ready to take off.
    • The Fort Meade monthly report does not record the names of the mission's enlisted men, but it is unlikely a wagoner and cook would have been left behind on a long march.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Dutch wagenaar, from wagen (see wagon).

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