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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1719 a wagon with a canvas top supported by bowed strips of wood or metal

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(covered wagons) A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country. N-COUNT