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General Slang
Covered wagon
· noun · trucker
A flatbed trailer with its load tarped down.
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A flatbed trailer with the freight strapped and tarped — usually lumber, steel coils, or machinery. The tarps billow and snap in the wind, giving the silhouette a hump that recalls the Conestoga wagons crossing the American plains. Tarping a load is its own miserable skill: 100lb tarps, climbing on stacked lumber, doing it in the rain at 2am.
“Covered wagon ahead of me lost a corner of his tarp in the wind.”
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Covered wagon In A Sentence
Covered wagon ahead of me lost a corner of his tarp in the wind.
Origin & Usage
Named for visual resemblance to the canvas-topped Conestoga wagons of 19th-century westward migration.
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