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tabanask
[< Algonk.; cf. Cree otābānāsk toboggan]
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n.
in the North and Northwest, a light tobogganlike dog sled into which a single passenger or a load is laced securely, the dog-driver following behind. [See picture at cariole.]
Quotations
1887
[In winter the flat-sled (tabaskhan) [sic] is used for bearing the household and other valuable effects.]
1933
John claims old Mathieu will make him a better tabanask than that, but I don't believe him.
1938
From behind us came a speeding dog team--three flying huskies drawing on a diminutive tabanask. . . .