Covered Wagon

Definition: Covered Wagon

Covered Wagon

Noun

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.

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Synonyms: Covered Wagon

Crosswords: Covered Wagon

Covered Wagon Raid (1950)

Pie Covered Wagon (1932)

Covered Wagon Trails (1930)

The Covered Wagon (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852: The California Trail (reference)

• Daily Life in a Covered Wagon (reference)

• Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Covered Wagon Days (reference)

• The Covered Wagon (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Living history exhibit at the NHOTIC with ox pulling a covered wagon. Credit: E. Stine.

Covered wagon and pioneer on Oregon Trail. NHOTIC 10th Anniversary, wagon train reenactment. Credit: John Craig.

Medium shot of water barrel on covered wagon. NHOTIC 10th Anniversary. Credit: John Craig.

Wheel from covered wagon. NHOTIC 10th Anniversary. Credit: John Craig.

NHOTIC 10th Anniversary, wagon train reenactment. Covered wagon and grazing horses on the Oregon Trail. Credit: Percilla Franco.

Early settlers on the Oregon Trail with a grieving woman reading the bible and in the background a young boy hanging out the covered wagon reaching to feed a goat. Replica in the NHOTIC. Credit: Unknown.

Exhibit at the NHOTIC of early Oregon settler herding sheep and oxen pulling his covered wagon. Credit: Unknown.

Very full covered wagon being pulled by oxen with a child and a goat following. On display in the NHOTIC gallery. Credit: Unknown.

A covered wagon on the historic Oregon Trail near the NHOTIC. Credit: Unknown.

A presentation of living history with a pioneer family sitting outside of their covered wagon eating food at their dining table in the middle of the range land. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

French

wagon couvert (covered van, covered wagen). (various references)

Greek 

σκεπασμένο κάρο. (various references)

Hungarian

ekhós szekér (conestoga wagon, covered waggon, prairie schooner). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

幌馬車 (prairie schooner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほろばしゃ (prairie schooner). (various references)

Pig Latin

overedcay agonway

Swedish

prärievagn (tilt cart, trek cart). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: converged, greenwood.

-4 letters: caverned, converge, cordovan, coverage, cravened, endeavor, engraved, governed, ovenware, overaged, overawed, overdone, overgoad, reavowed, renegado, wanderoo, woodener.

-5 letters: acrogen, angered, avenged, avenger, cardoon, codrove, congaed, congeed, cordage, corneae, coronae, covered, cowered, crooned, crowned, decagon, decrown, derange, dogvane, dowager, dragoon, encaged, encoder, encored, endower, engrave, enraged, gadroon, gowaned, grandee, greaved, grenade.