Conestoga synonyms

kŏn'ĭ-stō'gə

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covered wagon
A large wagon with an arched cover of canvas, used by American pioneers
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prairie wagon
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
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susquehannock (related)
The Iroquoian language of the Susquehannock.
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conestoga-wagon
A large cart with a canvas cover drawn by mules, oxen or horses and used extensively during the Westward Expansion of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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prairie-schooner
A horse-drawn wagon used to transport people and goods in the American west of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Conestoga Sentence Examples

  • It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia & Reading and the Lancaster, Oxford & Southern railways, and by tramways of the Conestoga Traction Company, which had in 1909 a mileage of 152 m.

  • The wheels of the Conestoga wagons had been modified with wide rims to even the load on the sand.

  • Their goods were carried in Conestoga wagons to Shippensburg and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland, taken from there to Pittsburg on pack horses, and exchanged for Pittsburg products; these products were carried by boat to New Orleans, where they were exchanged for sugar, molasses, &c., and these were carried through the gulf and along the coast to Baltimore and Philadelphia.

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