Prairie Schooner

  

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Prairie Schooner

Definition: Prairie Schooner

Prairie Schooner

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Prairie Schooner

DomainDefinition

Health

A pruritic eruption due to exposure to the mite Pyemotes ventricosus among harvesters, threshers, and packers. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Prairie Schooner

Synonyms: covered wagon (n), prairie wagon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Prairie Schooner

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Commercial Usage: Prairie Schooner

DomainTitle

Books

  • Across the Plains by Prairie Schooner (reference)

  • Prairie Schooner Detours (reference)

  • The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing (reference)

  • Wake of the Prairie Schooner (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Prairie Schooner

Illustrations:
Prairie Schooner

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prairie Schooner

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

prairie schooner

42

picture prairie schooner

7

prairie schooner wagon

3

prairie schooner rv

2

museum prairie schooner

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prairie Schooner

Language Translations for "prairie schooner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

покрита кола на преселници (schooner). (various references)

   

German

  

plantwagen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκεπασμένη άμαξα των αμερικανών πρωτοπόρων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

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

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

幌馬車 (covered wagon). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ほろばしゃ (covered wagon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airiepray oonerschay

   

Spanish

  

carromato de los pioneros. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

prärieskonare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Prairie Schooner

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cynomys mexicanus, Mirabilis jalapa L., Tympanuchus cupido attwateri. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Prairie Schooner

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-r-s"

-4 letters: chairperson, ionospheric, parishioner, reproachers.

-5 letters: aeciospore, chaperones, coprisoner, coronaries, hairpieces, harpooners, honoraries, ionosphere, reproacher, reproaches, rhinoceros.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Prairie Schooner


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 61 69 72 69 65      53 63 68 6F 6F 6E 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110010 01101001 01100101 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0061 0069 0072 0069 0065      0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006E 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5084677584757125369748181807184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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