DCHP-3

snow-road

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. Hist.

See: winter road(def. 2)

Quotations

1829
When sleighs, in the snow-roads, form one cahot or wave, others follow directly in regular succession; for the heave they make when descending from the crown of the cahot, creates a valley beyond.
1883
. . . as they are in the vicinity of the mill, they can be drawn direct to it on the snow-roads, just when they are cut. . . .
1945
. . . letters to him in 1876 . . . are full of questions about the condition of his snow-roads in the bush, about the prospect for "driving" on the streams in the spring.