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horse sled Hist. 
n. a kind of sled or toboggan drawn by horses. See 1859 quote.
See also: horse-toboggan
- 1859 (1870) Instead of pack-saddles, we were now provided with horse sleds . . . of the simplest nature, nothing more than three thin elastic boards, turned up in front with a strong curve, and firmly fastened together, so as to form a platform about ten feet long, by one and a half wide. A single horse works each of them in shafts, and draws a considerable load without difficulty.
- 1929 After the last of these trains had departed a brigade of sixty horse-sleds and thirty dog-trains was sent to the Beaver Hills to haul in three hundred buffalo cows previously killed and staged out of the reach of predatory animals.
- 1956 Men have crossed the Montreal Portage in dog sleighs and horse sleighs, in motor trucks and Caterpillar tractors, but only once in history has man crossed it in a pair of patent-leather shoes.
- 1859 (1870) Instead of pack-saddles, we were now provided with horse sleds . . . of the simplest nature, nothing more than three thin elastic boards, turned up in front with a strong curve, and firmly fastened together, so as to form a platform about ten feet long, by one and a half wide. A single horse works each of them in shafts, and draws a considerable load without difficulty.