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handsleigh
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a small sled pulled by hand.
See: sleigh ((n.))(def. 3a)
Quotations
<i>a</i>1820
[The trees] had been felled, cut into lengths, and removed by means of small hand sleighs purposely prepared for them. . . .
1836
We were overtaken . . . by S--with a handsleigh, which is a sort of wheelbarrow, such as porters use, without sides, and instead of a wheel, is fixed on wooden runners, which you can drag over the snow and ice with the greatest ease, if ever so heavily laden.
1961
The personnel . . . detrained . . .; then native birch was whittled to build hand sleighs, which were pulled over deep wet snow until Spring 1912.
1964
. . . for some years the settlers had to make a journey of several weeks in open boats--or with hand-sleighs upon the ice in winter--to the nearest mill at Long Point.
2n.
a small sled used by children for coasting.
Quotations
1852
There was a time when we could in winter sleigh, on our handsleighs, down from the Court House door to Mr. Cooch's "Emporium."
1932
We know it is not safe practice for children to run and hook their little handsleighs on behind some big bob sleigh. . . .
1947
Soon . . . two little girls . . . joined us with their hand-sleighs.