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1n.
a sled drawn by a team of dogs. [See picture at dog-sled.]
Quotations
1577
They . . . keepe certeine doggs not much unlike Wolues, whiche they yoke . . . to a sled. . . .
1778
The ice being rough and the snow deep [I] was obliged to haul our sleds the dogs not being able.
1858
It was with great difficulty . . . that we got the sleds up the bank, which was 240 feet high. . . .
1956
Still the teams continued to arrive. The grind of sled runners, the pit-patter of dogs' feet and the swish of the long whips.
2n. — Obs.
in the North and Northwest, a light tobogganlike dog sled into which a single passenger or a load is laced securely, the dog-driver following behind.
See: cariole ((n.))(def. 2a)
Quotations
1784
Anthony King sewing sleds and making traces for the Dogs.
3n.
a low sledlike contrivance, sometimes having shaped log-runners, used for removing stones from fields and for other heavy hauling.
See: stoneboat(and picture)
Quotations
1871
Every man can handle an axe, mend his waggon, and build his own "sled"--a kind of rough sleigh, for hauling timber and other heavy stuff.
1933
The Black Hawk . . . was built on Butler's Hill, some distance from the shore. It was conveyed to the shore by fifty oxen, after first being lowered onto a huge sled.
4n. — North
any enclosed structure on bobs or runners functioning as part of a cat-train, whether for the crew or for perishable freight.
See: caboose(def. 5b)
Quotations
1952
Tractors pulled large sleds slowly over this winter road to Hay River settlement. . . .
1957
A cat-swing is a convoy of three tractors and their sleds. A bunkhouse for the men is among the cargo-laden sleds.