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prairie schooner † Hist. 
any of various types of wagon used by settlers in the westward migration of the nineteenth century.
See also: prairie wagon tilted wagon
- 1880 The light waggon, covered with a cotton awning that gives it the name of "prairie-schooner," from its fancied resemblance to a sail-boat [and] the two-horse spring waggon . . . are the greatest favourites.
- 1914 All freight . . . was brought . . . in ox waggons, commonly called prairie schooners. These were very large and hauled by spans of ten pairs of oxen. . . .
- 1964 Other reminders of the past included . . . a Conestoga, or prairie schooner.
- 1966 [Caption] These prairie schooners brought Canadians back from Montana to homesteads in the Peace River Country.
- 1880 The light waggon, covered with a cotton awning that gives it the name of "prairie-schooner," from its fancied resemblance to a sail-boat [and] the two-horse spring waggon . . . are the greatest favourites.