chuck wagonn.
North American.
A wagon carrying provisions and equipped with cooking facilities, used esp. in western North 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.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > carrying provisions
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > chariot race > [noun] > wagon race
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1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 26 The sun blistered the paint upon the ‘mess-box’ behind the ‘chuck-waggon’.
1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy iii. 25 A group of blanket-swathed figures lay about a fire near the chuck wagon.
1923 H. Steele Spirit-of-Iron 252 In a little gully beside the chuck-wagon, the cook was boiling coffee.
1928 Daily Express 12 Nov. 6 [In Calgary] cowboys..invited us to have dinner with them earlier at the chuck-wagon.
1950 H. 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.
1952 H. 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.’
1968 G. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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