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Meanings of Conestoga in English
A large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century.
Synonyms
Examples for "covered wagon"
Examples for "covered wagon"
1
She came west in a covered wagon right after she was married.
2
They moved from Hayburn, Georgia in a covered wagon drawn by oxen.
3
Occasionally he meets a huge covered wagon, driver and horses sound asleep.
4
We rode in the covered wagon where they hauled the provisions.
5
Here Farmer Cordery was to be in waiting with his light tilt- covered wagon.
1
That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon.
2
The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
3
In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon.
4
And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses.
5
You saw a beat-up old Conestoga wagon or something; and you saw a thousand other things that just don't make any sense!
1
The Nations of the West were grouped around that prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen.
2
"Undoubtedly; and consequently we must be in some vehicle, perhaps some of those long prairie wagons, or some show-caravan-
1
And here and there a new automobile parked beside a prairie schooner.
2
Thirty years ago he rode a prairie schooner down into this canyon.
3
If this is not a regulation prairie schooner, I never saw one.
4
Slowly and laboriously the " prairie schooner" lumbered along the uneven route.
5
The Harrises came into possession of the Warrens' prairie schooner and drove off to the east.
Usage of Conestoga in English
1
He parked under the porte cochere at the Conestoga Motel and went inside.
2
The Conestoga wains rolled in with grain and good rum.
3
The great Conestoga, with its load had yielded to the strength of the Colossus.
4
The front elevation came under that order of architecture known out West as Conestoga.
5
I was put, with eight others, in a great Conestoga wain without a cover.
6
That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon.
7
Under his direction there were purchased in Cincinnati three river-steamers, the Tyler, Lexington, and Conestoga.
8
There were two classes of Conestoga wagons and wagoners.
9
Upcoming on the right was the Conestoga Motel, which seemed as likely a prospect as any.
10
It will be a Conestoga with the curtains rolled up, so that everybody can see in.
11
They were kids when their two families started West over the big prairies in Conestoga wagons.
12
The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
13
So did a Conestoga. She eyed him curiously.
14
The Fultons lived near the Conestoga, and Robert and his younger brothers were very fond of fishing.
15
The group supports Hobby Lobby and Conestoga.
16
In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon.