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double sleigh Hist.

• 1 a wide passenger sleigh having double front and back seats, drawn by one or two horses and riding on two sets of bobs.

  See also: bob  

  • 1813  The evil complained of will never be remedied, until the use of double sleighs or trains [is banned]. . . .
  • 1819  On Sunday, two men . . . who had been from Mill Creek over to Fish Point, and were returning in a double sleigh drawn by one horse, drove into a crack [in the ice].
  • 1931  . . . behind a spanking pair of French Canadians in a double sleigh the party drove down through the Lower Town . . . out upon the ice course on Le Fleuve. . . .

• 2 Lumbering a large sleigh consisting of one or two sets of four bobs, chained together and having bunkers of squared timbers traversing the paired bobs, used for hauling logs, which were held in place by stakes fitted into sockets in the bunkers.

  See also: bob  hauling sleigh  

  • 1882  At Qu'Appelle the engineers left the party, and the mode of conveyance was changed from double sleighs to single jumpers.
  • 1896  They had considerable trouble with teams and their wide double sleighs on the train roads. . . .
  • 1912  Going out of doors, he placed himself in the rear seat of the long double sleigh, where he wrapped himself about with the buffalo robe and sat waiting. . . .
  • 1966  The six, square-timbered barns that surround the farmhouse . . . [contain] a museum of pioneer equipment--cutters, wagons, broad axes, double sleighs. . . .