DCHP-3

stage sleigh†

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sleigh for transporting people or goods along a stage route.

Quotations

1912
On the stage sleigh from Ashcroft this person got froze, which mostly happens to a tenderfoot, who'd rather freeze like a man than run behind like a dog.
1955
At two o'clock on the morning of the appointed day the musical bells of the stage sled, the French-Canadian carriole, came sounding down his street and stopped before his door.