DCHP-2
dog-toboggan DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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 (def. 2a).
See also: cariole ((n.)) (def. 2a and picture)
- 1954 He loaded the dog toboggan on the raft and poked and lugged the clumsy thing upstream to gain height for his crossing.
- 1956 We loaded the living woman and child onto the flat-sleigh, the man into the dog toboggan.
- 1961 There was a pile of dog-toboggans in the apron of the front barge.
- 1954 He loaded the dog toboggan on the raft and poked and lugged the clumsy thing upstream to gain height for his crossing.