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A large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top
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conestoga
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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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.