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Con⋅es⋅to⋅ga wag⋅on

  [kon-uh-stoh-guh, kon-]
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–noun
a large, heavy, broad-wheeled covered wagon, used esp. for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration.
Also called Con⋅es⋅to⋅ga.

Origin:
1690–1700; named after Conestoga, Pa., where it was first made
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Con·es·to·ga   (kŏn'ĭ-stō'gə)   
n.   pl. Conestoga or Con·es·to·gas
See Susquehannock.
Sus·que·han·nock   (sŭs'kwə-hān'ək)   
n.   pl. Susquehannock or Sus·que·han·nocks

    1. A Native American people formerly located along the Susquehanna River in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The Susquehannock were extinct by 1763.

    2. A member of this people. Also called Conestoga, Susquehanna.

  2. The Iroquoian language of this people.

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Word Origin & History

Conestoga 
1699, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language; later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where this type of wagon was built. Conestoga wagon is from 1750 (about three years before the last of the Conestoga Indians were massacred), but it was already an established term as the first reference is to the name of a Philadelphia tavern. Also a breed of horses (1824) and a type of boot and cigar (see stogie).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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