| 词汇 | covered-wagon |
| 释义 | covered wagon noun[ C ] uk /ˌkʌv.əd ˈwæɡ.ən/ us /ˌkʌv.ɚd ˈwæɡ.ən/ a large vehicle with four wheels and a high, covered frame that is pulled by horses or other animals, used in the past to transport people and goods to the western part of the US（旧时美国西部运载人或货物的）有蓬大马车，大篷车 duckycards/E+/GettyImages Carriages & carts brougham buggy carriage carryall cart chaise chuckwagon coupe dray gig horse-drawn horsebox ox-drawn popemobile sedan chair stagecoach surrey trishaw tuktuk wagon Along with these men were needed covered wagons, with which they carried tools, etc., and in which at night they slept. Directly below him, half-way between the ranges of hills, was a circle of covered wagons wheel to wheel. On her mattress, she had been tenderly installed in one of the two covered wagons that carried their household goods. They made the journey in covered wagons called "prairie-schooners," while their goods followed in peddlers' carts. We engage a strong covered wagon, with a good pair of horses and a driver, the latter only seventeen years old, but owner of the team, and carrying himself man-fashion, with the precocity of the Western youth. covered wagon | American Dictionarycovered wagon noun[ C ] us/ˈkʌv·ərd ˈwæɡ·ən/ a large vehicle with four wheels and a high, covered frame which is pulled by horses or other animals, used in the past to transport people and goods to the western part of the US Examples of covered wagoncovered wagon When he was 15 and 16, he lived in a horse-drawn coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is also the home of the world's largest coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The east side features popular modes of transportation in 1831, including a steamboat, stagecoach, and coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A cloth top could be put on for weather, in which case it resembled a coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This apparent conical motion of the sun may be further explained by the spoked wheels of a coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lilith returns to work in a dance hall in a camp town, living out of a coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. People packed their belongings and began to travel by coveredwagon to what they hoped would be new and better life. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are early horse-drawn wagons and a prairie schooner, a scaled-down coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He even once gave away his horse to replace an animal that had died pulling a heavily loaded coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These provisions were usually kept in water-tight containers and carried inside the coveredwagon to minimize getting wet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They made the trip in a coveredwagon, which they lived in until they cleared the land and built a log house on their one thousand acre homestead. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the transport of hygroscopic bulk commodities, they have fully replaced both the wagon with opening roof and level floor (see above) as well as the standard coveredwagon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These exposed beams gave rise to the nickname coveredwagon boats. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One coveredwagon generally represented five people. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the shuttle trains, vehicles will be carried in covered wagons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of covered wagon These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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