prairie wagon

What does prairie wagon mean?

prairie 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 prairie wagon?

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

prairie 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.

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