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covered wagon

noun as in wagon with a canvas roof

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Take your motorized covered wagon on this 144-mile trek across western Nebraska, a route made popular by pioneers.

Her father, Lloyd, was the son of a farmer whose ancestors had arrived in Oregon by covered wagon in the mid-1800s.

Our national symbol may be the bald eagle but it might as well be the moving van—or, previously, the covered wagon.

Polly grew very tired of the hot sun blazing down on the close-covered wagon, and of the dust raised by the long wagon-train.

In 1861, however, they started for the Pacific coast in a covered wagon drawn by mules and at length reached Walla Walla.

For five years they continued in that state and then crossed the plains in 1862 with team and covered wagon.

They actually went in a covered wagon to Ohio for it and hauled it home, all silver, in a box.

He had been feverish for several days, and for that reason had ridden in a covered wagon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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