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Definition: Conestoga |
ConestogaNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ConestogaSynonyms: covered wagon (n), prairie schooner (n), prairie wagon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conestoga |
| Specialty definitions using "Conestoga": SSI. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lithograph by Currier & Ives, New York, providing a curious (and quite inaccurate) view of the action off Fort Pillow in which the Confederate River Defense Fleet, under Captain James E. Montgomery, attacked Federal gunboats. The print identifies the following ships (from left to right): CSS "Mallory" (a non-existent vessel, shown sinking); CSS Louisiana (an ironclad that had already been destroyed by this time); USS Cincinnati; USS Benton; USS Cairo; USS Carondelet; USS Saint Louis; and USS Conestoga. Credit: NAVY. |  | Colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, circa 1862. It depicts the bombardment of the Confederate fortifications on Island Number Ten by Federal gunboats and mortar boats. Ships seen include (from left to right): Mound City, Louisville, Pittsburg, Carondelet, Flagship Benton, Cincinnati, Saint Louis and Conestoga. Mortar boats are firing from along the river bank. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862. This action between Federal gunboats and Confederate shore batteries took place on 17 June 1862. USS Mound City was disabled by a shot that penetrated her steam drum, causing heavy casualties among her crew. Other U.S. ships present were the ironclad Saint Louis (seen in the right foreground) and "timberclads" Lexington and Conestoga. The gunboat in left center is one of the "timberclads". Credit: NAVY. |  | Conestoga wagon drawn by four mules, probably in Maryland or Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The 1955 Studebaker Commander V-8 Regal Conestoga station wagon for six passengers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Conestoga Enterprises, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Conestoga, PA |
Expressions using "Conestoga": Conestoga wagon ♦ Conestoga wain. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Language | Translations for "Conestoga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | ekhós szekér (conestoga wagon, covered waggon, covered wagon, prairie schooner). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onestogacay | ||||
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"Conestoga" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Consejo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: coagents, cognates, octagons. | |
-2 letters: coagent, cognate, congest, congoes, gentoos, octagon, octanes, onstage. | |
-3 letters: agents, agones, ascent, atones, canoes, cantos, centas, centos, cogent, cogons, congas, conges, congos, contes, contos, costae, cotans, enacts, gascon, genoas, gentoo, nostoc, oceans, octane, octans, secant, socage, stance, stooge, tangos, tongas. | |
-4 letters: acnes, aeons, agent, agone, agons, angst, antes, ascot, atone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: conglobates. | |
+3 letters: cogenerators, congelations, congregators, gerontocrats, oceanologist. | |
+4 letters: cogenerations, conglomerates, congregations, cosignatories, excogitations, gonadectomies, oceanologists, octogenarians, prognosticate, proteoglycans. | |
+5 letters: coinvestigator, conglomerators, contagiousness, geopoliticians, gerontocracies, prognosticated, prognosticates, serodiagnostic, tropocollagens, xenodiagnostic. | |
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