Meaning of Toboggan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
2. A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
   Canada, US
3. Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
   figuratively
4. A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
   Southern-US, Virginia, West

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Examples

“Toboggan has not yet found its Way into the dictionaries, and there are other ways of spelling it.”

“Nothing could be more exciting and exhilarating than a slide, on sleigh or toboggan, from the lofty summit of the ice-mound or cone down to its base.”

“The “toboggan” is a light flat sleigh, used by the Canadian aborigines to bring home over the snow the spoils of the hunt.”

“The toboggan may be described as a flat plank turned up at one end.”

“A toboggan consists of two pieces of bark joined side by side and curved up at the front.”

“Every half hour or so one or the other would steal off with snowshoes and toboggan to make the round of the holes, often returning with half a dozen fish that together weighed perhaps twelve pounds, perhaps twenty-four pounds[…]”

“Trenance Park has gardens, a toboggan run, miniature golf and the indoor delights of Water World with its tropical fun pool and flumes.”

“The old toboggan has been laid aside, and sleighs or waggons dash along the streets.”

“These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan.”

“The steer dog next to the sleigh prevents this by immediately leading off at a sixty-degree angle from the direction the others are going, thereby compensating for the sidewise stress and keeping the toboggan in the clear until the bend has been passed.”

“McGinnity began to hit the toboggan in 1906, after he had pitched his arm off the previous year. Last season his efforts at times were painful.”

“If we were to hit the toboggan of a depression, wages would drop.”

“Farming was on “the toboggan.” New settlers who had purchased land could not meet their deferred payments.”

“The fact that I agreed showed that there was no hope of getting off the toboggan more than momentarily.”

“We all have found out that once a show goes into rehearsal, it's a toboggan slide and there's not enough time. So we had six months of preproduction meetings.”

“Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.”

“Sissy bounded back in dressed in a heavy sweater and toboggan.”

“If you must adorn your dog with a hat, go with a toboggan-style hat. If It was good enough for Snoopy, It Is definitely good enough for your dog.”

“We used an old toboggan stuffed with cotton for the ball, and it served the purpose very well.”

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