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Meanings of covered wagon 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 "Conestoga wagon"
Examples for "Conestoga 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
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.
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 covered wagon in English
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.
6
Half an hour or so later the covered wagon drove along Fourteenth street.
7
When he was 7, Williamson's family moved to New Mexico in a covered wagon.
8
She was stole when a child and brought to Tennessee in a covered wagon.
9
They gathered round on the hill, nearly surrounding the covered wagon and its contents.
10
When I put it on I sort of reminded myself of a covered wagon.
11
And now there is the huge covered wagon, coming home with sacks of grain.
12
Carriage and covered wagon then fell into the procession, which began to move on.
13
The governor's own maternal grandmother came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon from Tennessee.
14
It was a transport truck with a canvas- covered wagon-type bed.
15
When Willock started up from the mattress in the covered wagon, the sun had set.
16
We went in a covered wagon with oxen and camped out all along the way.
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Translations for covered wagon
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common