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flat sled
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a runnerless, tobogganlike sled usually drawn by dogs.
Quotations
1831
. . . John Hay and Mr. Taylor making flat sleds etc.
1897
The dog-sleds were not the same as those we had used in traversing the hard driven snow of the plains, but were what are known as "flat sleds" or large toboggans, they being better suited to woodland travel.
1922
Everything an Indian requires . . . is made with this knife -- canoes, flatsleds, snowshoes . . . .
2
a similar, somewhat larger sled, drawn by one or two horses.
Quotations
1880
On Christmas Eve Mr. Brunette's horse ran away with the flat sled scattering the contents over the whole length of Ross' new grade.
1929
Sometimes I was off to the plains with horses and flat sleds for buffalo meat, sometimes shooting prairie chickens . . . .
1958
The gold seekers set out with horse-drawn flat sleds eventually.