Also 4 waynesman. [f. WAIN sb.1 + MAN.]
1. = WAINER. Obs. exc. Hist.
1392. Earl Derby’s Exped. (Camden), 180. Duobus waynemen de Dansk pro eodem viagio, iiij marcz. pr. Cuidam waynesman de Dansk pro eodem viagio, ij. marcz. pr.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 5833. Þe wayne men wer noȝt ware.
1580. H. F., Pelegrom. Syn. Sylva, 42. A Carter, a Waine man. Auriga [etc.].
1609. Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees), 154. Item paid to the wainmen that brought the lyme and sand for there drinkes, ix d.
1627. Act 3 Chas. I., c. 2 § 1. No Carrier with any Horse or Horses … nor Waynemen with anie Wayne or Waynes … shall … travell upon the said Day.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 193. The leaves … yield a strong thready substance … which is commonly used in ropes and whips by the wainmen in that part of the world.
1880. F. G. Lee, Ch. under Q. Eliz., I. 15. At Canterbury … a holy-oil stock was emptied of its sacred contents, in order to grease the creaking wheels of a wainman’s cart.
† 2. The constellation Boötes, regarded as the teamster of ‘Charles’s Wain.’ Obs.
1588. A. Ashley, Mariners Mirr., A 6 b. A catalogue of the more famous fixed starres…. The Wainmans right shoulder.
1594. Kyd, Cornelia, III. i. 69. And now the sleepie Waineman softly droue His slow-pac’d Teeme.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iv. 290. Besides these Twelve, toward the Artick side, A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears divide; After, the Wainman comes, the Crown, the Spear [etc.].
