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bob-sled, bob-sleigh orig. 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. Also bob-sleighing vbl. n., the sport of riding on a bob-sleigh.
1839in Amer. Speech (1948) XXIII. 44/1 Then there would be wear and tear of bob-sled. 1848–60in Bartlett. 1888[see bob n.1 2 d]. 1892Eng. Illustr. Mag. Sept. 882 The logs are loaded on bob-sleds and taken to the mills. 1894H. Gibson Tobogganing 163 Bobsleighing is another amusing form of tobogganing which has become very popular during the last few years. Ibid., A Bobsleigh consists of two machines..connected together endways by a board, upon which the crew sit or lie. Ibid., The Bobsleigh, Bobsled, or double-ripper. 1910Daily Chron. 12 Jan. 7/2 An English bobsleigh team..dashed down the bobsleigh run and route above Grindelwald at a great speed. 1959Maclean's Mag. 9 May 82/4 A winded horse, his sleighbells jingling, struggled to pull a real bobsled up the icy slope. 1968Listener 12 Sept. 335/2 The night that we first transmitted our {pstlg}60,000 production of Hamlet at Elsinore, they gave the front cover to the world bob-sleigh finalists. |