chuck wagon
Example Sentences
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There is a branding iron, a snake hook and an old chuck wagon dinner bell.
From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2019
Cinematic scenes from her upbringing on the family ranch find young Sandra changing a tire all by herself as she struggles to get the chuck wagon to the cowboys before cattle-branding time.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2019
But on this first night of the roundup, as the sun sank low over the Canadian river breaks, the cowboys discussed a more pressing topic as they finished their chuck wagon supper.
From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2017
We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie.
From Salon • May 28, 2017
He looked off over the chuck wagon, through the tops of the scrub pines in which the camp was set, drawing his thin, white eyebrows, considering the case.
From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)