Wiktionary
n. A horse-drawn wagon used to transport people and goods in the American west of the 18th and 19th centuries.
WordNet
n. a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century [syn: covered wagon, Conestoga wagon, Conestoga, prairie wagon]
Wikipedia
Prairie Schooner is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press. It is based in Lincoln, Nebraska and was first published in 1926. Founded by Lowry Wimberly and a small group of his students, who together formed the Wordsmith Chapter of Sigma Upsilon (a national honorary literary society).
Although many assume it is a regional magazine, it is nationally and internationally distributed and publishes writers from all over the United States and the world.
Prairie Schooner has garnered reprints, and honorable mentions in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and various of the Best American series, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Mystery Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Usage examples of "prairie schooner".
The coydogs attacked as swiftly and silently as Indians attacking a prairie schooner.
He got up and left the tent, circling around toward the familiar prairie schooner which now served as a dressing room and living quarters.
It was what Dean knew used to be called a prairie schooner in the old times, even before predark.
He could not see well, as the arching canvas of a prairie schooner blocked his view, but it did seem that the gate operator had a phase error.
The side walls of our wagon were higher than usual, but the canvas top was much lower than on the prairie schooner or Conestoga, and the canvas itself was browned by smoke and usage.
The dogs rushed to where the automobile was slowly crunching up the winding gravel driveway and began racing around it like Indians circling a prairie schooner.
The vehicles met on the road were a variety of the prairie schooner, long wagons with a top of hoops over which is stretched a cotton cloth.