Tanım
•a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century
Etimoloji
From Susquehannock kanahstó:ke (the name of a settlement, now Conestoga, Pennsylvania). According to Mithun, British colonists based the name on the Mohawk word tekanastoge (“place of the upright pole”). It may also be the anglicized form of Gandastogue, which may have been close to what the Susquehannock called themselves.