PRAIRIE SCHOONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prairie schooner mean? 

• PRAIRIE SCHOONER (noun)
  The noun PRAIRIE SCHOONER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PRAIRIE SCHOONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAIRIE SCHOONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Conestoga; Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie schooner; prairie wagon

Hypernyms ("prairie schooner" is a kind of...):

waggon; wagon (any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor)

Holonyms ("prairie schooner" is a member of...):

caravan; train; wagon train (a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file)