Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who has charge of one or more wagons; especially, an officer in charge of wagons in a military train.
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Examples
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The Project for the New American Breakdown is headed for the political land-fill scuttled by its luckless wagon-master corporate-George.
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Before the tribe has a chance to enact their own punishment on the two white men and very likely the rest of the wagon train the wagon-master has the two men tied to a wagon wheel and mercilessly whips the snot out of them in front of the Indians.
Archive 2004-09-01 Steve 2004
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Before the tribe has a chance to enact their own punishment on the two white men and very likely the rest of the wagon train the wagon-master has the two men tied to a wagon wheel and mercilessly whips the snot out of them in front of the Indians.
Putting the Cat Out Jeffrey Hill 2004
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"What do I owe you?" the wagon-master asks peevishly.
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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Coming in sight of a wagon-train bound for the West, he rode up to it and recognizing the wagon-master as an old friend of his father, he told him what had occurred, and that he feared he had killed Steve Gobel.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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"Served him right, Billy, and we'll just go into camp, take the boys along, and go over and clean out the house o 'l'arnin'," was the blunt reply of the wagon-master.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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After proceeding some distance, I found that the wagon-master was at my heels, and, together, we traced every cow-path and mountain road we could find, and passed half a mile beyond the enemy's outposts, and over ground visited by his scouts almost hourly.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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Wild Bill was assistant wagon-master on that trip, and all knew him so well that the idea of possessing Sable Satan by unfair means was at once given up and Billy felt secure in his treasure, for such the horse was, as his equal for speed and bottom had not been found on the plains.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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"No, I don't," said one of the boys; and then, looking impudently and inquiringly into his face, said: "_Why! ain't you the wagon-master of the 17th Indiana? _"
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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Overland Stage Company, and he was at once persuaded to join him in the trip West going as assistant wagon-master.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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