prairie schooner

a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.

Origin of prairie schooner

First recorded in 1835–45

Then he strode away and proceeded to dress on the other side of the prairie-schooner, without so much as a second look at us.

The Prairie Child |Arthur Stringer
On the back of one of these lots stood a tumble-down wooden building, and hidden away in this building was the prairie-schooner.

The Prairie Child |Arthur Stringer
If they went at all it was in a prairie-schooner or on horseback.

The Strength of the Pines |Edison Marshall
A covered wagon, of the prairie-schooner type, was drawn up at the foot of the rise.

A Prairie Infanta |Eva Wilder Brodhead

They had got hold of a canvas-covered wagon, of the type of the old "prairie-schooner."

They Call Me Carpenter |Upton Sinclair

prairie schooner

mainly US a horse-drawn covered wagon similar to but smaller than a Conestoga wagon, used in the 19th century to cross the prairies of North America