tent-wagon, noun

Origin:
Dutch, EnglishShow more Dutch tent tilt + English wagon.
?obsolete
A covered wagon; tent sense 2.
1819 C.G. Curtis Acct Col. of Cape of G.H. 118A light tent-waggon, drawn by six or eight horses, constitutes the carriage of the wine boor.
1854 T. Shone Diary. 4 Feb.Henry came From Graham’s Town With his tent Waggon and began to load up Potatoes and onions and Pomkins.
1894 E. Glanville Fair Colonist 219A large tent-waggon, drawn by a span of sixteen oxen, drew up at Orange Grove.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 495Tent wagon, A wagon part or whole of which is covered with a frame upon which canvas is stretched.
1936 P.M. Clark Autobiog. of Old Drifter 56The organizer of the trip..was able to borrow ten mules and a light tent wagon.
1955 V. De Kock Fun They Had 102A great lumbering tent-wagon, drawn by sixteen oxen.
A covered wagon; tent sense 2.
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