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Meanings of prairie 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.

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        Examples for "covered wagon"
        Examples for "covered wagon"
        1
        She came west in a covered wagon right after she was married.
        The diary of mattie spenser
        2
        They moved from Hayburn, Georgia in a covered wagon drawn by oxen.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        3
        Occasionally he meets a huge covered wagon, driver and horses sound asleep.
        Jack / 1877
        4
        We rode in the covered wagon where they hauled the provisions.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        5
        Here Farmer Cordery was to be in waiting with his light tilt- covered wagon.
        Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
        1
        That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon.
        The Anubis Gates
        2
        The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
        Swan Song
        3
        In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon.
        A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
        4
        And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses.
        The Crisis — Volume 03
        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!
        Swan Song
        1
        He parked under the porte cochere at the Conestoga Motel and went inside.
        Man on a leash
        2
        The Conestoga wains rolled in with grain and good rum.
        Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
        3
        The great Conestoga, with its load had yielded to the strength of the Colossus.
        The Lone Ranche
        4
        The front elevation came under that order of architecture known out West as Conestoga.
        Mary Anderson
        5
        I was put, with eight others, in a great Conestoga wain without a cover.
        Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
        1
        And here and there a new automobile parked beside a prairie schooner.
        Land of the Burnt Thigh
        2
        Thirty years ago he rode a prairie schooner down into this canyon.
        Tales of lonely trails
        3
        If this is not a regulation prairie schooner, I never saw one.
        The Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel
        4
        Slowly and laboriously the " prairie schooner" lumbered along the uneven route.
        Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
        5
        The Harrises came into possession of the Warrens' prairie schooner and drove off to the east.
        The Settling of the Sage
        Usage of prairie wagon in English
        1
        The Nations of the West were grouped around that prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen.
        The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
        2
        "Undoubtedly; and consequently we must be in some vehicle, perhaps some of those long prairie wagons, or some show-caravan-
        Robur the Conqueror