Definition of wagon train in US English:
wagon train
nounˈwaɡən ˌtrānˈwæɡən ˌtreɪn
historical A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the largest investors, the New York and Montana Mining Company, spent $39,000 just to outfit a wagon train to transport a mill.
- Once General Sully's army reached Fort Union, the civilian wagon train, safely beyond Sioux country, continued west on its own.
- The French war administrator Michel le Tellier took the lead in calculating the ration requirements of an army, arranging for civilian contractors to supply food, and setting up a wagon train with provision reserves.
- ‘He was tall and striking looking,’ according to Mollie Sheehan, the bright eleven-year-old who rode in the same wagon train with him from Denver to Bannack.
- The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles.