DCHP-2

tabanask [< Algonk.; cf. Cree otābānāsk toboggan] North DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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. . . .