A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
〈史〉篷车队马车队
Example sentencesExamples
The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles.
One of the largest investors, the New York and Montana Mining Company, spent $39,000 just to outfit a wagon train to transport a mill.
Once General Sully's army reached Fort Union, the civilian wagon train, safely beyond Sioux country, continued west on its own.
The French war administrator Michel le Tellier took the lead in calculating the ration requirements of an army, arranging for civilian contractors to supply food, and setting up a wagon train with provision reserves.
‘He was tall and striking looking,’ according to Mollie Sheehan, the bright eleven-year-old who rode in the same wagon train with him from Denver to Bannack.
Definition of wagon train in US English:
wagon train
nounˈwaɡən ˌtrānˈwæɡən ˌtreɪn
historical
A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
〈史〉篷车队马车队
Example sentencesExamples
One of the largest investors, the New York and Montana Mining Company, spent $39,000 just to outfit a wagon train to transport a mill.
Once General Sully's army reached Fort Union, the civilian wagon train, safely beyond Sioux country, continued west on its own.
The French war administrator Michel le Tellier took the lead in calculating the ration requirements of an army, arranging for civilian contractors to supply food, and setting up a wagon train with provision reserves.
‘He was tall and striking looking,’ according to Mollie Sheehan, the bright eleven-year-old who rode in the same wagon train with him from Denver to Bannack.
The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles.