Crossword clues for conestoga
conestoga
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language and sometimes said to mean "people of the cabin pole;" later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A characteristic type of covered wagon, called Conestoga wagon, was built there from 1750 (about three years before the last of the Conestoga Indians were massacred), but it already was an established term, as the first reference is to the name of a Philadelphia tavern, and probably originally meant the type of wagon farmers used on the road from the city to Conestoga. Also a breed of horses (1824) and a type of boot and cigar (see stogie).
Wikipedia
Conestoga originally referred to the Conestoga (people), an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.
Places:- Conestogo, Ontario, a village north of Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
- Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga Lake, Nebraska, United States
- Conestogo Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Conestoga Mall (Grand Island, Nebraska)
- Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario), a shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario
- Conestoga Parkway, a freeway in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
- Conestoga River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the state of Pennsylvania
- Conestogo River, a river near Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
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Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon
- USS Conestoga, any of the three United States Navy ships named after the wagon
- Conestoga (rocket), the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages
- Conestoga (ship), a wrecked steamship in the Thousand Islands which is a popular Scuba diving site
- C-93 Conestoga, a cargo aircraft
- AL-60C-5 Conestoga, a variant of the Aermacchi AL.60 utility aircraft
- Conestoga High School, a public high school in Devon-Berwyn, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga College, based in Kitchener, Ontario in Canada
- Conestoga Middle School, a public 6-8 school in the Beaverton School District
- In Star Trek, the USS Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
- In the sequel Aliens (1986), the ship class of the spaceship USS Sulaco
- In the video game Outpost 2, the name of a starship presented in the game
- Conestoga (convention), an annual literary science fiction convention held in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Conestoga Church of the Brethren, a congregation related to Conrad Beissel at the Ephrata Cloister
- Conestoga Cigar, also known as a "stogie"
- Conestoga Traction Company, a former American regional interurban trolley operated out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga, the company that manufactures the Big-Bang Cannon
The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as a modified design) before the program was shut down.
Conestoga was a literary science fiction and fantasy convention held annually in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1997 through 2010, after which it was suspended for financial and logistical reasons. The convention at first was designated by the year in which it was held. With its sixth incarnation, Conestoga converted to a whole number count, rolling the first five into the number tally, and running through #14 before stopping. Celebrating science fiction and fantasy literature, and art were staples of the convention, but many who were also interested in horror, science fiction, anime, and comics attended. Popular activities at the convention included filking (filk singing is a play on folk) and gaming. Featured programming included a writers track, an art show, a dealer room, a masquerade, and a play put on by the Penguin Playhouse Troupe.
Usage examples of "conestoga".
Moravians, and another little village of half civilized basketmaking Indians at Conestoga near Lancaster.
Zendts a worthwhile proposition, they would have been willing to keep their horses ashore, unload the Conestoga, and let Captain Frake have their passage money.
The Monacan settled to the east, and the Erie and Conestoga claimed the areas north of West Virginia.
There were as many as thirty bookshops and twice the number of taverns and coffeehouses, with names like Blue Anchor, Bunch of Grapes, Tun Tavern, Conestoga Wagon, Rising Sun, Half Moon, and each had its own clientele.
Sitting side-by-side on the high seat of the Conestoga, she and Etta Carter grinned at each other with uncontrolled excitement as they felt the wheels beneath them turn.
Presbyterians in great Conestoga Waggons haunt the Approaches to taverns and inns, gathering up sinners of all degrees and persuasions, taking them far out into the Country, and subjecting them to intense sermonizing until they either escape, go to sleep, or find the true turning of Heart that needs no Authentication.
Irregulars, the same Band that slew the other Indians at Conestoga, but week before last.
Lehigh when the Rangers there came after them, but a few Weeks before the Conestoga murders, suspecting them of being in League with Pontiac, whose depredations were then at their full Flood.
The attempt to relieve Fort Pitt continues, as do reverberations from the massacres at Conestoga and Lancaster.
Travels take you by Conestoga, put your Ears to the Wind, follow the sounds of merry Indulgence, and where they are loudest, there shall Seth be, and you will note how he mourns me.
Bat-toe, that for miles runs deeper than the height of a Conestoga Waggon.
Ryan wanted to make certain that the rebuilt Conestoga rig could, if necessary, be pulled by a pair of horses.
He moved toward the canvas-topped Conestoga wag, feet slurring through the powdery straw and dust.
Wade made a face that might have been made by pioneers crossing the continent, dropping a piano off the Conestoga wagon onto the wheezy Oklahoma dirt a burden relieved.
Louis in Conestoga wagons and traveled across the vast, perilous country in search of a better life in the West.