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Stoneboat

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1859, OED Evaluation: U.S. (chiefly north.) and Canada

A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Something that they'd throw the stumps onto, like- Speaker: Oh, well, a stoneboat, you could call it.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: No no, not to- not to um- not to work the land, just to ah, they threw the stumps on- on these things that- Speaker: Oh, oh! A stoneboat. Interviewer: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Speaker: Uh-huh. Yes, stone-boat. Well Dad had lots of them. We had lots of stone-boats. We had two or three of them there. We used to make it out of cedar (inc) you-know? And put boards on them and then put a team of horses and that, and we ah- well in the summertime we- for what we burnt, was pine-roots, you-know pine-nuggets.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: On the flat. Yeah. Oh yes, that's what they picked the stones on, the stoneboat is what we called them.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
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Speaker: Well, got your bag and have you go along with a wagon, and stone-boat, or-something, if they were big ones you couldn't get on the wagon you'd put them on the stone-boat and draw them to the fence or stone-wall. Small ones, you have to put them on the wagon.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
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Speaker: Anything they could make, like on the line of a stoneboat, or hitch them to it.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
Speaker: Eh? That was what they used for a stoneboat, or drawing water, or anything they were moving. Interviewer: They didn't call that a snowboat? Like, for on the snow, like a stoneboat on the snow? Speaker: It'd go all dandy on the snow, but um, you're thinking to the- what we call the flat-bottomed stoneboat.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
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Speaker: Well, they made themselves- a flat thing- a plank and- and rolled the stones onto it. Interviewer: What did they call that? Speaker: Ah a stone-boat. Interviewer: Stone-boat.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Mm-hm. Ah did you have on your farm um um, a kind of low platform on a couple of runners that you- Speaker: Oh yes, a stoneboat, we always called it, yeah.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
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Speaker: Oh yeah, we used to have fun with horse- I used to- I used to have a horse that I rode, and uh, I could hitch up to the, what they called a stoneboat, which- have you heard of a stoneboat?
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
Oh yeah, very much so. Very much so. Uh, oh he had some beautiful horses but uh, this one I had was a pretty- pretty old nag, but she sure was- she was great in the stoneboat, great to ride, she never balked at all, but he had some pretty uh- I guess he had six horses and uh, some of them were really- oh I 've forgotten the names uh, not the names of the uh- the type of an-- the breed.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
Speaker: But I had what was called a stoneboat. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: That you use the horse. And the stoneboat was a- a piece of steel perhaps twice as big as this table.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
That was the first time our family had a freezer and the box that it came in had wooden supports inside it and he put it up on a- a stoneboat which is like a little slay for taking stones off the field and built a little shed on the side of it and we decided that we were all going to sleep out in this- in this house.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
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Speaker: Yeah. And ah, when he was seventeen, he took the team and the stoneboat and he went down across the river down here and out to where John-Jameson is now. That was my Uncle Ed Parcy's. <11> Yes. Speaker: He went out through there and down to where Fred-Stroud lived and they got the corner stone, and they loaded in on the stoneboat and he drew it up to Middleville when they built that church in Middleville.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
Speaker 2: And how does the stoneboat work? I don't know anything about it. Speaker: The stoneboat is a ah, they took like about four pi-- logs, pine- we usually an elm, that- something good and strong like that and they would- and they would saw them out so it was like that, tipped up, and it would be four- four boards like that and they'd have a plank across and they'd- there'd be a hole through there and they hook the team on that and- and trail right flat on the ground 'cause they were trying-
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
You-know what. I'm going to take the stones off and so they would be a stone-boat, just a flat piece of um, like a float you-know? And ah this would go behind the horses and then you just put the stones there, take them to a fence, take them off and it's- it's all hard work.
A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.