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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 picture at cariole.

See: cariole ((n.))(def. 2a and picture)

Quotations

1861

Of parchment, as such, the Chipewyans make, little use; but the residents avail themselves of it, in place of glass for windows, for constructing the sides of dog-carrioles, and for making glue.

1914

A dog-cariole is a large canvas shoe on a toboggan in which a man can lie down, and the driver stands on the open part behind him.

1962

For winter travel, the dog cariole was used. The cariole was rather like a wooden shoe with the toe turned up to form a dashboard.