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ˈchuck ˌwag(g)on N. Amer.
[chuck n.5]
A wagon carrying provisions and equipped with cooking facilities, used esp. in western N. America, on ranches, during harvest, in lumber camps, etc.; also, a roadside ‘eatery’. chuck-wagon race, in rodeos and stampedes, a race of horse-drawn chuck wagons.
1890L. D'Oyle Notches 26 The sun blistered the paint upon the ‘mess-box’ behind the ‘chuck-waggon’. 1910Mulford Hopalong Cassidy iii. 25 A group of blanket-swathed figures lay about a fire near the chuck wagon. 1923H. Steele Spirit-of-Iron 252 In a little gully beside the chuck-wagon, the cook was boiling coffee. 1928Daily Express 12 Nov. 6 [In Calgary] cowboys..invited us to have dinner with them earlier at the chuck-wagon. 1950H. Sutton Footloose in Canada 211 In a chuck wagon race the entrants are required at a given signal to break an entire camp..load all the paraphernalia in a wagon, do a series of figure eights around barrels, and then ride once around the track. 1952H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. ii. 33 A small covered wagon stood in the yard... ‘That's the old man's chuck wagon... Always enters a team for the chuck wagon races.’ 1968G. de Fraga Murder at Cookout xxiii. 106 You know how it is—at a chuck-wagon or a smorgasbord, where guests are expected to help themselves. |