4 definitions found for Conestoga

Conestoga n 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 [syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon, prairie schooner]

Conestoga 1699, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language; later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where this type of wagon was built. Conestoga wagon is from 1750 (about three years before the last of the Conestoga Indians were massacred), but it was already an established term as the first reference is to the name of a Philadelphia tavern. Also a breed of horses (1824) and a type of boot and cigar (see stogie).

Conestoga noun see Conestoga wagon

Conestoga, PA Zip code(s): 17516