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train ((1))
[< Cdn F < F traîne woodcutter's cart]
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n.
a low runnerless sled used in early Quebec for hauling goods to market and for similar purposes. Also spelled traine.
See: traineau
Quotations
1783
No person shall come with traines, carts or other carriages, loaded with hay, straw or wood within the limits of the market-place on market days, but shall resort to the parade near the parish church.
1788
Had reason and common sense been consulted . . . the sleigh and sled of Vermont and New-York or the cariole and train of Canada would have been pronounced best, most convenient and most useful.
1813
The evil complained of will never be remedied, until the use of double sleighs or trains [is banned]. . . .
1819
If the habitant considered the train better suited to work in his woodland, let him continue.
1841
No cariole, train, berline, or other winter carriage, (excepting the sleigh above described) shall be used unless the horse or horses shall be harnessed thereto in the manner above mentioned.