Forms: 4 charietere, charyeter, chariatour, 5 charyetter, 7 charioter, 7– charioteer. [app. a mixed form f. OF. charioteur, and OF. charetier (whence CHARETER).] The driver of a chariot or car.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 21287 (Trin.). Þe charietere [v.r. carter] is ihesu crist.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Kings xxii. 34. And he seide to hys charyeter, Turn thin hond.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 383. The chariatour herde þat.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 29. With hands that cannot erre Hurls lightning at the audacious Charioter.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 390. On a heap Chariot and charioteer lay overturned.
1859. Lewin, Invas. Brit., 45. The horsemen and charioteers of the Britons … poured such a shower of javelins upon the Roman galleys.
