Quick links
stoneboat†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
n.
a low sledlike contrivance, sometimes having shaped log-runners, used for removing stones from fields and for other heavy hauling.
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. . . .