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tabanask [< Algonk.; cf. Cree otābānāsk toboggan] North 
n. in the North and Northwest, a light tobogganlike dog sled into which a single passenger or a load is laced securely, the dog-driver following behind. [See picture at cariole.]
See also: cariole ((n.)) (def. 2a) toboggan ((n.)) (def. 4)
- 1887 [In winter the flat-sled (tabaskhan) [sic] is used for bearing the household and other valuable effects.]
- 1933 John claims old Mathieu will make him a better tabanask than that, but I don't believe him.
- 1938 From behind us came a speeding dog team--three flying huskies drawing on a diminutive tabanask. . . .
- 1887 [In winter the flat-sled (tabaskhan) [sic] is used for bearing the household and other valuable effects.]