Synonyms for prairie schooner


Grammar : Noun


Définition of prairie schooner

  • noun covered wagon
Example sentences :
  • Then I reckon that's the rig-out for the crew of a prairie schooner, eh?
  • Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
  • Every prairie schooner that goes that way is like a sail of the ‘Mayflower.’
  • Extract from : « ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; » by Hezekiah Butterworth
  • A prairie schooner should have some sort of a hound following it.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of a Schooner » by Albert W. Harris
  • No, I permit no 'prairie schooner' to stop, even that their oxen may drink.
  • Extract from : « The Gringos » by B. M. Bower
  • We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay.
  • Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
  • A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner.
  • Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
  • A prairie schooner is a long deep wagon bed with flaring sides, about eight feet high and twenty feet long.
  • Extract from : « Colorado--The Bright Romance of American History » by F. C. Grable
  • So now we are all starting early in the morning via a prairie schooner to Boulder.
  • Extract from : « Girl Scouts in the Rockies » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • You see, my first plan is entirely upset by a prairie schooner, an Indian, and a horse-dealer.
  • Extract from : « Girl Scouts in the Rockies » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • They had met emigrants on the Ohio, and had seen the white sail of the prairie schooner in all of the forest ways.
  • Extract from : « In The Boyhood of Lincoln » by Hezekiah Butterworth

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