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prairie schooners

prairie schooners is the plural of prairie schooner.

Meaning of prairie schooner

Noun

prairie schooner (plural prairie schooners)

  1. (historical) A covered wagon, especially one of the relatively light, cheap, and boxy design popular in the United States during the 19th century.
    • It was what we call a "prairie schooner," covered with cloth, a genuine emigrant wagon.1864, Charles S. Bryant, Abel B. Murch, A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota: Including the Personal Narratives of Many who Escaped, Rickey & Carroll, page 112

Questions about prairie schooners

What is prairie schooners the plural of?
Prairie schooners is the plural of prairie schooner.

Words near prairie schooners in the dictionary

  1. prairie pointers
  2. Prairie provinces
  3. prairie rose
  4. prairie roses
  5. prairie schooner
  6. prairie schooners
  7. prairie skirt
  8. prairie skirts
  9. prairie smoke
  10. prairie star
  11. prairie stars

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