Definitions for wagon train

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wag′on train`(n.)

  1. a train of wagons and horses, as one transporting settlers in the westward migration.

Origin of wagon train:

1800–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. caravan, train, wagon train(noun)

    a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file

    "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety"

Wiktionary

  1. wagon train(Noun)

    A number of horse-drawn wagons traveling together for safety.


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