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toboggan-sled
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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 ((n.)) (def. 2a).]
See: cariole ((n.))(def. 2a and picture)
Quotations
1905
He had no dogs with him on this trip, but drew the toboggan-sled, which was already well laden with skins, by a thong over his shoulder.
1912
Women and children were departing with dogs harnessed to empty toboggan-sleds. . . .