NOUN
- 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
How To Use covered wagon In A Sentence
- She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
- The first white settlers journeyed across America in covered wagons.
- The princess and the fairy mage were bound by ropes as prisoners on a covered wagon drawn by two horses that didn't seem quite normal.
- As soon as a covered wagon halted at a new homestead, the head of the family took out his spade.
- We worked our way north; a single covered wagon and seventeen housecarls mounted upon lamas.
- The paper presents the structure, features, main specifications and operation method of the new door lock device for covered wagon.
- Even today life for the farmer has not changed greatly here—horses may still draw a covered wagon on a lonely grey-white lane.
- The covered wagon was a misleading symbol. The Tribes Triumphant
- Stuck in traffic, they find themselves surrounded by a crestomathy of carriages: ‘barouches, britchkas, wurts, tandems, tilburies, dog-carts, covered wagonnettes with leather curtains full of singing workmen out on the spree, and go-carts carefully driven by fathers of families.’
- Owing to the addition of a flight deck over the existing hull, the USS Langley (CV-1) became known as the "Covered Wagon.
