conestoga wagon

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   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

   Synonymscovered wagonConestogaprairie wagonprairie schooner

   Broaderwagon

   Part ofcaravan

Questions about conestoga wagon

What does conestoga wagon mean?

conestoga wagon means "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".

What is another word for conestoga wagon?

Close synonyms include covered wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conestoga wagon a common word?

conestoga wagon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.