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Noun: Conestoga wagon
  1. 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
    "The settlers travelled west in Conestoga wagons";
    - covered wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner [N. Amer]

Derived forms: Conestoga wagons

Type of: waggon, wagon

Part of: caravan, train, wagon train

Encyclopedia: Conestoga wagon