DCHP-3

stoneboat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a low sledlike contrivance, sometimes having shaped log-runners, used for removing stones from fields and for other heavy hauling.

See: ground sleigh,sled(def. 3),sleigh ((n.))(def. 4)

Quotations

1887
Then we loaded them on the stoneboat, drawn by the oxen.
1901
In the afternoon the colt was put through her morning experience, with the variation that the stone-boat was piled up with a fairly heavy load of earth and stone.
1963
We brought out two hams . . . and between stoneboat loads of heavy sod we made great inroads into them. . . .

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