berline berlin, burline [< Cdn F, adapted from the name of a wheeled vehicle (a kind of sedan) < Berlin, Prussia] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
1 n. — Hist.
a rude winter vehicle improvised from a sled or toboggan by erecting a framework to provide a backrest and to support a wrap-around cover and roof, pulled by a horse or by dogs and first used by the French Canadians.
2 n. — North
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 also: cariole ((n.)) (def. 2) dog cariole