covered wagon

noun
1.
a large wagon with a high, bonnetlike canvas top, especially such a wagon used by pioneers to transport themselves and their possessions across the North American plains during the westward migrations in the 19th century.
2.
British Railroads. a boxcar.
Origin:
1735–45, Americanism

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