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View synonyms for prairie schooner

prairie schooner

noun

  1. a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.


prairie schooner

noun

  1. a horse-drawn covered wagon similar to but smaller than a Conestoga wagon, used in the 19th century to cross the prairies of North America
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of prairie schooner1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

In the street a luxurious limousine was tooting for a ramshackle prairie schooner to turn to one side.

An authentic prairie schooner, a true veteran of the Plains, was out of the question.

The bed was of the old prairie-schooner style, with the bottom boat-shaped and the ribs on the outside.

We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay.

A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner.

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