n. a low sled or stoneboat that slid on wooden runners made from shaped logs, pulled by an ox or by oxen.
- 1825  (1916)  Walked to Toronto [to buy a] logging-chain and an ox-sled.
- 1844  (1963)  Searching in the woods for a tree with a proper turn near the root to make a pair of runners for an ox sled. . . .
- 1896  In winter several small grists could be taken on one ox sleigh.
- 1957  It was there that I met the first ox-carts, or rather "ox-sleds," that I have ever seen in Newfoundland.