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sloop
[? prob. < sloop boat; cf. stoneboat]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Lumbering
a single sleigh (def. 1) used for hauling logs.
Quotations
1955
At the present rate, it's expected that the haul will be finished by March 1. Some 250 persons are engaged in the operation plus 55 teams for the horse-haul, and several tractors, sloops, trucks and jammers.
1966
The six, square-timbered barns that surround the farmhouse . . . [contain] a museum of pioneer equipment--cutters, wagons, broad axes, double sleighs, and a single sleigh known as a scoop [sic].
2n. — B.C.
a hayrack mounted on runners.
See: sleigh rack
Quotations
1962
. . . nothing counted then but . . . pitching out the raked-up bunches onto the sloops, hauling sloop load after sloop load alongside the derrick poles.
1962
He'd send us out to load our sloops while he'd open the stack, spreading the emergency top he'd built at the onset of the storm.