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chuckwagon † 
1 West a wagon used by ranch hands for carrying cooking gear and provisions needed while camping on the trail or on the open range.
- 1923 In a little gully beside the chuck-wagon, the cook was boiling coffee.
- 1963 Stringer was . . . at home eating sow-belly off the tailboard of an Alberta chuck wagon
2 a wagon used in chuckwagon races.
See also: chuckwagon race
- 1957 It was a fine chuckwagon, in perfect order, gaily painted and quite useless on a modern ranch.
- 1964 At night chuck-wagons bogging in heavy mud buckled wheels and several teams fell.
- 1923 In a little gully beside the chuck-wagon, the cook was boiling coffee.