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covered wagon

noun

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.
British Railroads. a boxcar.

covered wagon

covered wagon

A typical conveyance for settlers moving west with their belongings. It was drawn by horses or oxen and equipped with a canvas cover, often supported by hoops, to keep off rain.

An Americanism dating back to 1735–45

Take your motorized covered wagon on this 144-mile trek across western Nebraska, a route made popular by pioneers.

Her father, Lloyd, was the son of a farmer whose ancestors had arrived in Oregon by covered wagon in the mid-1800s.

Our national symbol may be the bald eagle but it might as well be the moving van—or, previously, the covered wagon.

Polly grew very tired of the hot sun blazing down on the close-covered wagon, and of the dust raised by the long wagon-train.

In 1861, however, they started for the Pacific coast in a covered wagon drawn by mules and at length reached Walla Walla.

For five years they continued in that state and then crossed the plains in 1862 with team and covered wagon.

They actually went in a covered wagon to Ohio for it and hauled it home, all silver, in a box.

He had been feverish for several days, and for that reason had ridden in a covered wagon.

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