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sled road
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Obs.
a secondary road used only when the ground is frozen, usually because the terrain is impassable at other times, formerly used by sleighs.
See: winter road(def. 2a)
Quotations
1826
Spent three days on the sledroad and the three families joined in the work.
2
a way for dog-sleds, especially a train of such sleds.
Quotations
1870
In a day or so a sled-road will be open to the Lake of the Woods, and by the first of January, the main road will be cut through.
1924
A practised man can chop a sled-trail through an apparently impassable jam surprisingly quickly.