DCHP-3

low runner

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of sleigh having two low wooden runners which barely raised the box off the surface of the snow; a crude type of cariole (def. 1).

See: cariole ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1818
. . . An attempt was once made to correct this evil, by prohibiting all low runners, as they are called, from coming within a certain distance of Quebec. . . .