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Charles' Wain
Capella
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Charles' Wain

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the Big Dipper (constellation)

wain is archaic for a horse-pulled wagon

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Over the snow-covered roofs could be seen a decorated cross with chains, and above it the rising triangle of Charles’s Wain with the yellowish light of Capella.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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the first sight he beheld was the stars above him. Charles's Wain was getting towards a right angle with the Pole star, and Gabriel concluded that it must be about nine o'clock—in other words, that he had slept two hours.

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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