DCHP-1 Online
low runner Obs. 
a type of sleigh having two low wooden runners which barely raised the box off the surface of the snow; a crude type of cariole (def. 1).
See also: cariole ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1818 . . . An attempt was once made to correct this evil, by prohibiting all low runners, as they are called, from coming within a certain distance of Quebec. . . .
- 1818 . . . An attempt was once made to correct this evil, by prohibiting all low runners, as they are called, from coming within a certain distance of Quebec. . . .