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 --
On the shuttle trains, vehicles will be carried in covered wagons.
One covered wagon generally represented five people.
These exposed beams gave rise to the nickname covered wagon boats.
In the transport of hygroscopic bulk commodities, they have fully replaced both the wagon with opening roof and level floor (see above) as well as the standard covered wagon.
They made the trip in a covered wagon, which they lived in until they cleared the land and built a log house on their one thousand acre homestead.
These provisions were usually kept in water-tight containers and carried inside the covered wagon to minimize getting wet.
He even once gave away his horse to replace an animal that had died pulling a heavily loaded covered wagon.
There are early horse-drawn wagons and a prairie schooner, a scaled-down covered wagon.
