different between wagoner vs carter

English

Alternative forms

• waggoner
• wagonner

Etymology

wagon +? -er

Noun

wagoner (plural wagoners)

1. Someone who drives a wagon.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act V, Scene 2,^[1]

     Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,

     Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;

     And then I’ll come and be thy waggoner,

     And whirl along with thee about the globe.

   • 1748, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First,^[2]

     Places, then, being taken for Esther and me in the Chester waggon, I pass over a very immaterial scene of leave-taking, at which I droped a few tears betwixt grief and joy; and, for the same reasons of insignificance, skip over all that happened to me on the road, such as the waggoner’s looking liquorish on me, the schemes laid for me by some of the passengers, which were defeated by the valiance of my guardian Esther […]

   • 1819, William Wordsworth, The Waggoner, Canto I, lines 23-25,^[3]

     ’Tis Benjamin the Waggoner;

     Who long hath trod this toilsome way,

     Companion of the night and day.

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 1,^[4]

     That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,–the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint!

   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Chapter Two,^[5]

     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.

Derived terms

• Northern Waggoner

Translations

Anagrams

• waroeng

English

Etymology

From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart +? -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t?/
• Homophone: Carter
• Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: cart?er

Noun

carter (plural carters)

1. A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 95:

     They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.

2. A fish, the whiff or Marysole.

Coordinate terms

• horse-drawn
• oxcart

Derived terms

• carterly

Translations

Anagrams

• Crater, arrect, crater, tracer

Catalan

Etymology

carta +? -er.

Noun

carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera)

1. postman

French

Noun

carter m (plural carters)

1. housing (of an engine)

Verb

carter

1. To verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card

Conjugation

Gallo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

carter

1. (transitive) to fold (laundry)

Italian

Noun

carter m (invariable)

1. chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
2. oil sump (in a car)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??r/, /ka?t?r/
• Rhymes: -a??r, -a?t?r
• Hyphenation: cart?er
• Homophone: karter

Noun

carter m

1. indefinite plural of carte

Anagrams

• tracer