wagon train

noun [C]

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› a long line of wagons pulled by horses or oxen, used by people in the 19th century who were travelling to the western US with their possessions in order to live thereCarriages and carts

(Definition of wagon train noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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