prairie schooner

What does prairie schooner mean?

prairie schooner 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 prairie schooner?

Close synonyms include covered wagon, Conestoga wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon. 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 prairie schooner a common word?

prairie schooner 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prairie schooner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.