Conestoga wagon

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• Conestoga wagon — on Oregon Trail reenactment in 1961 …   Wikipedia

• 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.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Conestoga wagon — ☆ Conestoga wagon [kän΄ə stō′gə ] n. [after Conestoga Valley, Lancaster County, Pa., where the wagons were made] a broad wheeled covered wagon used for hauling freight in colonial America: cf. PRAIRIE SCHOONER …   English World dictionary

• Conestoga wagon — /kon euh stoh geuh, kon / a large, heavy, broad wheeled covered wagon, used esp. for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration. Also called Conestoga. [1690 1700; named after Conestoga, Pa., where… …   Universalium

• Conestoga wagon — noun 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 (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑covered wagon, ↑Conestoga, ↑prairie wagon, ↑prairie schooner • Hypernyms: ↑wagon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Conestoga wagon — noun Etymology: Conestoga, Pa. Date: 1717 a broad wheeled covered wagon drawn usually by six horses and used especially for transporting freight across the prairies called also Conestoga …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Conestoga wagon — Con′es•to′ga wag′on [[t]ˈkɒn əˈstoʊ gə, ˌkɒn [/t]] n. trs a large, heavy, broad wheeled covered wagon, used to transport freight across North America during the early westward migration. Also called Con es•to′ga • Etymology: 1715–20; after… …   From formal English to slang

• Conestoga wagon — noun A large cart with a canvas cover drawn by mules, oxen or horses and used extensively during the Westward Expansion of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the summer and fall the covered broad wheeled Conestoga wagons,… …   Wiktionary

• Conestoga River — Origin Berks County, Pennsylvania Mouth Susquehanna River …   Wikipedia

• Conestoga — originally referred to the Conestoga (people), an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania. It may also refer to: simply people from the Pennsylvania in 1856 Year, refereed to this named and eventually they scattered in different …   Wikipedia

• Conestoga — 1690s, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language and sometimes said to mean people of the cabin pole; later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A characteristic type of covered wagon,… …   Etymology dictionary