DCHP-3

dog-toboggan

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

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 (def. 2a).

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

Quotations

1954
He loaded the dog toboggan on the raft and poked and lugged the clumsy thing upstream to gain height for his crossing.
1956
We loaded the living woman and child onto the flat-sleigh, the man into the dog toboggan.
1961
There was a pile of dog-toboggans in the apron of the front barge.