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A wagon so old the language retired it but kept the name for stars.
sky jobCharles's Wain is the old name for the Big Dipper
painter's wagonConstable's Hay Wain hangs in London's National Gallery
root wordSame Germanic ancestor as the modern word wagon
buried in namesSurvives in surnames like Wainwright, a cart-builder
dead weightNow lives almost only in poetry and place-names