supply wagon
Goods transport vehicle
A supply wagon is a wheeled vehicle used to transport provisions, equipment, or materials, especially for military forces or frontier expeditions.
Before motorized transport, supply wagons formed the logistical backbone of armies and westward migrations: The supply wagons couldn't keep pace with the advancing troops.
The term now appears mainly in historical contexts or period entertainment.
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- draft animalsLivestock used for hauling
mules · quartermaster · rations · ammunition · convoy · trail · dusty · creaking · wheels · canvas · cargo · frontier · Old West · military · logistics · teamster · harness · load
- Frontier Transportstagecoach, prairie schooner, mule train, oxcart, buckboard
- wagonsprairie schooner, buckboard, bandwagon, wain, Conestoga
- army supply trainpack mule, provisions, ammunition, tents, fodder
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- horse-drawn vehiclescart, chariot, carriage, coach, horse cart
- Overland Travelexpedition, trek, trail, road trip, journey
supply wagonpassenger coach
Vehicle compartment for riders
stagecoach · troop transport · personnel carrier · passenger carriage · carriage
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