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Conestoga wagon

n.

A heavy covered wagon with broad wheels, used especially by American pioneers as they traveled west.

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[After Conestoga, a village of southeast Pennsylvania.]

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Conestoga wagon [ˌkɒnɪˈstəʊgə]

n

(Historical Terms) US and Canadian a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century

[after Conestoga, Pennsylvania, where it was first made]

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Conestoga wagon - 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 Conestoga, covered wagon, prairie schooner, prairie wagon waggon, wagon - any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor caravan, wagon train, train - a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety"