0 a large vehicle with four wheels and a high, covered frame that is pulled by horses or other animals, used in the past to transport people and goods to the western part of the US
1 a large vehicle with four wheels and a high, covered frame which is pulled by horses or other animals, used in the past to transport people and goods to the western part of the US
Along with these men were needed covered wagons, with which they carried tools, etc., and in which at night they slept.
Directly below him, half-way between the ranges of hills, was a circle of covered wagons wheel to wheel.
On her mattress, she had been tenderly installed in one of the two covered wagons that carried their household goods.
They made the journey in covered wagons called "prairie-schooners," while their goods followed in peddlers' carts.
We engage a strong covered wagon, with a good pair of horses and a driver, the latter only seventeen years old, but owner of the team, and carrying himself man-fashion, with the precocity of the Western youth.
When he was 15 and 16, he lived in a horse-drawn covered wagon.
It is also the home of the world's largest covered wagon.
The east side features popular modes of transportation in 1831, including a steamboat, stagecoach, and covered wagon.