DCHP-3

lumber sled

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sleigh used in hauling logs.

Quotations

1829
For some years, the Americans . . . were in the habit of running the Canadians off the road, their lumber-sleighs being much heavier.
1841
In Monroe they disguised him for a night in a ladies dress, in the morning they dressed him as a sturdy beggar, and shipped him under our eyes, in an old crazy lumber sled, and he escaped the vigilance of all the Marshals.
1852
The wood of this oak is so heavy and hard that it will not float in the water, and it is in great request for the runners of lumber-sleighs, which have to pass over very bad roads.