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American sleigh

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a one-horse sleigh having two double seats, the box being mounted on two steel-shod runners.

Quotations

1789

We will not reject the Dutch or American Sleigh and Sled with long high runners, if found best and most convenient, merely because they are Dutch or American.

1834

Last winter in a "shanty" at Lassomption a few American sleighs (dragged by one horse) tracked a road for themselves, which was free from Cahots....