Conestoga wagon
nounEtymology
From the Conestoga River in Pennsylvania, USA, whose settlers presumably developed early forms.
Definitions
A heavy covered wagon with a curved boatlike body popular in the United States from about…
A heavy covered wagon with a curved boatlike body popular in the United States from about 1750–1850.
- The heavy and boat-shaped Conestoga wagon should not be confused with the lighter and cheaper prairie schooners that largely replaced them.
- During the summer and fall the covered broad-wheeled Conestoga wagons, moved by four or six splendid draught-horses, were constantly employed in transporting the productions of the county to market.
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