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Conestoga wagon

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From the Conestoga River in Pennsylvania, USA, whose settlers presumably developed early forms.

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