WAGON TRAIN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Wagon train

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/wˈægən treɪn/ Listen

Wagon train

noun

A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file. Synonyms: caravan, train. "They joined the wagon train for safety"

See images of 'Wagon train'

Etymology of 'Wagon train'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Text size: A A

Share |

"Wagon train" Quotes from Famous Books

... three miles in the east (Mr. Jenks had said) was his wagon train, camped at the North Platte River; and peering between the high canopy of stars and the low stratum of spectrally glowing, earthy—yes, very earthy—Benton, I tried to focus upon ...

— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin

Read full book for free!

... sluggish water, Scarcely halting for a drink, Toiling through the sticky quagmire, They attain the farther brink. Here the trail leads to the westward,— Once the redman's wild domain; Now the shallow rutted highway Of the settler's wagon train. Here and there along the edges, Paths work through the waving grass, Where at night from bluff to river, Sneaking coyotes find a pass. Here the meadow lark sings gaily As she leaves her hidden nest, While the sun of early morning Double-tints her ...

— Nancy MacIntyre • Lester Shepard Parker

Read full book for free!

Words linked to "Wagon train" : Conestoga wagon, caravan, prairie schooner, train, covered wagon, procession, prairie wagon, Conestoga