DCHP-3

lumber wagon

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

a heavy, springless, horse-drawn wagon of a type used for hauling lumber.

Quotations

1829
[In passing over them in a lumbering waggon, the poor human frame is jolted to pieces.]
1849
We now mounted a lumber waggon without springs, and jolted over a road which was rather trying for a lady.
1912
The stable yard attached to his hotel was lined three deep with buggies, carriages, and lumber waggons which had borne in the crowds of farmers from the country.
1961
They [in 1892] forded the North Saskatchewan River in a lumber wagon, and homesteaded at Sturgeon.