DCHP-1 Online

stoneboat † 

• n. a low sledlike contrivance, sometimes having shaped log-runners, used for removing stones from fields and for other heavy hauling. [See picture at stoneboat.]

  See also: ground sleigh  sled (def. 3)  sleigh ((n.)) (def. 4)  

  • 1887  (1952)  Then we loaded them on the stoneboat, drawn by the oxen.
  • 1901  In the afternoon the colt was put through her morning experience, with the variation that the stone-boat was piled up with a fairly heavy load of earth and stone.
  • 1963  We brought out two hams . . . and between stoneboat loads of heavy sod we made great inroads into them. . . .