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ˈstone-boat
1. A boat for transporting stones.
c1336Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 533 Qui..reduxerunt Batellum vidz. le Stanbate. 1471Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869) I. 25 Of ilk stane bot lossand in the havin j d. 1505Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 280 Ane stane bote at the New Havin. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Stone-vessel, De Cessart's machine for throwing large stones into the sea consisted of a pontoon carrying an inclined plane [etc.]. [title of figure] De Cessart's Stone-Boat.
2. U.S. (chiefly North.) and Canad. A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
1859N. P. Willis Convalescent 75 A stone-boat would run glibly over such a shallow snow! 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v., The rise in front enables the stone-boat to ride over small obstacles. 1901‘R. Connor’ Man from Glengarry 189 In the afternoon the colt was put through her morning experience, with the variation that the stone-boat was piled up with a fairly heavy load of earth and stone. 1906Daily Chron. 21 Sept. 4/4 They fetch the water every day in a barrel fixed in a kind of sled called a stone boat. 1962J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy viii. 79 A stone-boat is best described as a heavy wooden sled, on which can be hauled rocks and stones..dead cows, sick cows, or other heavy objects. |