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Conestoga wagon definition

☆ Con·es·toga wagon (kän′ə stō′gə)

a broad-wheeled covered wagon used for hauling freight in colonial America

Etymology: after Conestoga Valley, Lancaster County, Pa., where the wagons were made

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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