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  • 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

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Examples

  • Conestoga is coming up this weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and for the first time I'll actually manage to be there.

    Conestoga 2004

  • This is a three book compilation that is probably JUST NOW out by William Mark Simmons - I got a copy at Conestoga from the emergency run.

    Phooey! reudaly 2002

  • It was called the Conestoga wagon, that being the name of the place in Pennsylvania where they were first made.

    Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

  • The wagons were first used in the Conestoga valley, and most extensively used there; and the sleek powerful draught-horses known as the Conestoga breed were attached to them, hence their name.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The first shot from the "Conestoga" struck the water a few feet from the "Yankee," and, ricochetting, plunged into her hull.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • An hour's hard work with axes and crowbars, and the draw was swung far enough to let pass the "Conestoga" and the

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • When within about a thousand yards of the two gunboats, the deserted steamers blew up with such force, that, even at that great distance, the glass was shattered in the "Conestoga," and her woodwork seriously damaged.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Captain Rodgers disapproved this plan also, and went to Cincinnati, where he purchased and equipped the "Conestoga," "Tyler," and "Lexington," and started them down the river.

    Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

  • Captain Rodgers disapproved this plan also, and went to Cincinnati, where he purchased and equipped the "Conestoga," "Tyler," and

    Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • About half-distance between this prolonged escarpment and the outlying hills six large "Conestoga" waggons, locked tongue and tail together, enclosing a lozenge-shaped or elliptical space -- a _corral_ -- inside which are fifteen men and five horses.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

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