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Definition: Prairie Schooner |
Prairie SchoonerNoun1. 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. |
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Health | A pruritic eruption due to exposure to the mite Pyemotes ventricosus among harvesters, threshers, and packers. (references) |
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Synonyms: Prairie SchoonerSynonyms: covered wagon (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. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prairie schooner | 42 |
picture prairie schooner | 7 |
prairie schooner wagon | 3 |
prairie schooner rv | 2 |
museum prairie schooner | 2 |
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| 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 carromato de los pioneros. (various references) prärieskonare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cynomys mexicanus, Mirabilis jalapa L., Tympanuchus cupido attwateri. (various references) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 61 69 72 69 65      53 63 68 6F 6F 6E 65 72 |
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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)P r a i r i e   S c h o o n e r |
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 |
| 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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