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Meanings of prairie schooner 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
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-
Usage of prairie schooner in English
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.
6
On the left an ox-drawn prairie schooner has arrived at the shore, with types of Western civilization.
7
We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay.
8
He too came West in a prairie schooner and remembers all its wildness, its uncouthness, its railroadless state.
9
The McMurdo's prairie schooner rolled off to a place where the lupines were high, and Glen pitched the tent.
10
Say, you shanghaied me on your d-d old prairie schooner-didI tell you to drive me to a farm?
11
The year before my birth these two young people started West in a prairie schooner to stake a homestead claim.
12
Ever after Dr. Harpe remembered him as she saw him first framed in the white canvas opening of the prairie schooner.
13
Calder had the idea of using the prairie schooner, associated with the coming of the pioneers to California, drawn by great oxen.
14
A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner.
15
Such as could not afford a " prairie schooner," as the canvas-covered wagon was called, put their worldly goods into handcarts.
16
It's a question in my mind whether this woman quite represents the vigorous type that came over the plains in the prairie schooner.
This collocation consists of:
Prairie schooner through the time
Prairie schooner across language varieties
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