Also 9 -ier. [f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To act as charioteer; to guide or manage a chariot or car; to drive.
1802. Southey, Ode Astronomy, iv. in Minor Poems (1815), I. 209 (D.).
| To charioteer with wings on high, | |
| And to rein in the Tempests of the sky. |
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., App. Wks. (1846), 761/1. Whom I saw charioteering over the French flag.
2. trans. To drive (a chariot or vehicle).
1883. Miss Bird, in Leisure Hour, 145/1. I charioteered one of these [buggies].
1883. Shairp, in Gd. Words, 205/2. He … compared [them] to … Phlegethon (sic), charioteering the sun.
3. trans. To drive (a person) in a chariot. Hence Charioteered ppl. a.
1849. [W. M. W. Call], Reverberations, II. 96. Chariotiered, as in an ocean car.
1862. Sir R. Christison, Lett., in Life, II. xi. 301. I shall always remember his charioteering me … through the finest part of his property.
