chuckwagon†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — West

a wagon used by ranch hands for carrying cooking gear and provisions needed while camping on the trail or on the open range.

Quotations

1923

In a little gully beside the chuck-wagon, the cook was boiling coffee.

1963

Stringer was . . . at home eating sow-belly off the tailboard of an Alberta chuck wagon

a wagon used in chuckwagon races.

1957

It was a fine chuckwagon, in perfect order, gaily painted and quite useless on a modern ranch.

1964

At night chuck-wagons bogging in heavy mud buckled wheels and several teams fell.