See also: sleigh ((n.)) (def. 3a)
- a1820  (1838)  [The trees] had been felled, cut into lengths, and removed by means of small hand sleighs purposely prepared for them. . . .
- 1836  We were overtaken . . . by S--with a handsleigh, which is a sort of wheelbarrow, such as porters use, without sides, and instead of a wheel, is fixed on wooden runners, which you can drag over the snow and ice with the greatest ease, if ever so heavily laden.
- 1961  The personnel . . . detrained . . .; then native birch was whittled to build hand sleighs, which were pulled over deep wet snow until Spring 1912.
- 1964  . . . for some years the settlers had to make a journey of several weeks in open boats--or with hand-sleighs upon the ice in winter--to the nearest mill at Long Point.
2 n. a small sled used by children for coasting.