Search Result for "conestoga wagon":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Conestoga wagon \Con`es*to"ga wag`on\ or Conestoga wain \Con`es*to"ga wain\ [From Conestoga, Pennsylvania.] A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Conestoga wagon n 1: 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 [syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner]