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单词 covered wagon
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covered wagon


covered wagon

n. A large wagon covered with an arched canvas top, used especially by American pioneers for prairie travel.

covered wagon

n (Historical Terms) US and Canadian a large wagon with an arched canvas top, used formerly for prairie travel

cov′ered wag′on


n. a large wagon with a high, bonnetlike canvas top, esp. such a wagon used by pioneers to cross the North American plains in the 19th century. [1735–45, Amer.]
Thesaurus
Noun1.covered wagon - a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas topcovered 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 centuryConestoga, Conestoga wagon, prairie schooner, prairie wagonwaggon, wagon - any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractorcaravan, 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"
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covered wagon


covered wagon:

see Conestoga wagonConestoga wagon
, heavy freight-carrying vehicle of distinctive type that originated in the Conestoga region of Pennsylvania c.1725. It was used by farmers to carry heavy loads long distances before there were railroads to convey produce to markets.
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; prairie schoonerprairie schooner,
wagon covered with white canvas, made famous by its almost universal use in the migration across the Western prairies and plains, and so called in allusion to the white-topped schooners of the sea. It was a descendant of the Conestoga wagon.
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covered wagon


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Synonyms for covered wagon

noun a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top

Synonyms

  • Conestoga
  • Conestoga wagon
  • prairie schooner
  • prairie wagon

Related Words

  • waggon
  • wagon
  • caravan
  • wagon train
  • train
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