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cariole ((n.))
[< Cdn F carriole]
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The term cariole seems to have been used for a wide variety of horse-drawn sleighs, becoming a common word from the Maritimes to the Pacific Coast:
The extension to the one-man sleigh drawn by dogs seems to have taken place very early (see 1791 quote, def. 1a).
Quotations
1808
The cariole, in short, is the name for all sorts of vehicles used in winter, from a market cart, up to a state coach.
1an.
originally, a light open sleigh used in French Canada, drawn by one or two horses (sometimes by dogs), and having a seat for the driver.
See: cabriole
Quotations
1765
To be sold at Publick Vendue . . . a Horse, Cariolle and Harness, and sundry other Articles too tedious to mention.
1791
Mastiffs draw loads of provisions, and very small dogs carrioles, with children in them.
1816
[Some were] in little carioles; (a few boards nailed together and fastened to a horse). . . .
1964
[Caption] A single carriole said to have been made by Derocher of Montreal about 1890.
1bn.
a light passenger sleigh usually accommodating two passengers and a driver, ordinarily drawn by two horses and widely used for pleasure in many parts of Canada from the 18th to the early 20th century.
Quotations
1769
There is something exceedingly agreeable in the whirl of the carrioles, which fly along at the rate of twenty miles an hour. . . .
1861
Should there not also be a rule for carrioles meeting on the highway, as to which side should be taken?
1914
The bridal party drove in carioles, another reason for not celebrating weddings in the summer months, as it would not be becoming to see twenty or thirty well-dressed couples going to church in squeaking Red River carts.
1965
In La Perade [Quebec] fur-coated cariole drivers sing as they drive the fishing parties to and from . . . the fishing huts.
2an.
in the North and Northwest, a light tobogganlike dog sled into which a single passenger or a load is laced securely, the dog-driver following behind.
See: carryall(def. 2a),dog cariole,dog-toboggan,Hudson Bay toboggan,tabanask,toboggan ((n.)) (def. 4),toboggan car(r)iole,toboggan-sled,train boss (def. 1a),traineau(def. 2)
Quotations
1761
I discerned a cariole, or sledge, moving our way, and immediately sent my guide to the driver. . . .
1844
They have been building a cariole, a light sled to be drawn by three dogs; in these one is laced and secured.
1929
Each officer had his "carriole," a sled of birch boards, twelve feet long, the sides covered with parchment skins and handsomely painted. Four dogs went to a sled.
1966
Six white Mackenzie River malemutes would race over the snow, drawing a flame-red carriole decked with long colored streamers
2bn.
a similar sled pulled by a horse.
See: toboggan ((n.)) (def. 3)
Quotations
1801
Went to the hills with a horse and carriole, low and surrounded with parchment buffalo skin; it weighed only twenty pounds, but was large enough for one person and his bedding.
1927
Mr. McKay used his train of "husky dogs," while the Bishop was conveyed . . . in a carriole or toboggan, drawn by a horse
3n.
the upper framework and leather or canvas sides of the sled; the structure mounted on the toboggan.
See: carryall(def. 3)
Quotations
1820
The cariole used by the traders is merely a covering of leather for the lower part of the body, affixed to the common sledge, which is painted and ornamented according to the taste of the proprietor.
1944
A carriole . . . is made with a frame of sticks and ropes fastened to a toboggan. Over this a canvas is spread to form a bath-tub shaped affair.
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