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Charles's Wain   /tʃˈɑrlzɪz weɪn/   Listen
Charles's Wain

noun
1.
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.  Synonyms: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Wagon, Wain.





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"Charles's wain" Quotes from Famous Books



... Canal", and the southern "the Horse". In India the black horse was sacrificed at rain-getting and fertility ceremonies. The months of growth, pestilence, and scorching sun heat were in turn symbolized. The "Great Bear" was the "chariot" "Charles's Wain", and the "Milky Way" the "river of the high cloud", the Celestial Euphrates, as in Egypt it was the ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie


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