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Bobsleigh

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1839, OED Evaluation: Originally U.S.

A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Oh, there would be cutters, ah, driving sleighs. Bobsleighs. Sloops. Interviewer: What's a sloop? Speaker: Well, that'd be two- two sleighs with ah, um, bobsleigh would be- would one with the runner on it, and then up- and then it was another piece come across and went down at the back.
A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
Like they used to be function at ah, in Porcupine that bobsleighing. They used to have picnics there, family picnics.
A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
Ah, toboggan- to-- yeah, the- what's that- bobsleighing, not toboggan-racing- bobsleigh, skeleton, all that stuff's pretty cool, I find, anyway. Interviewer: Bobsleigh skeleton. Speaker: Not bobsleigh, it's ah- oh, bobsleigh. It's the guys in big- this big sled going down through- through the course. And then skeleton is the guy in a little tiny sled that is just goes through that c-- the same course. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: Nothing- nothing like that around town though, we don't have any bobsleighs or skeleton racers around here.
A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.
ExampleMeaning
They had for snow ploughs, they had a bobsleigh, like that's one sleigh ahead of
A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.