stoneboat

English

Etymology

stone +‎ boat

Noun

stoneboat (plural stoneboats)

  1. A kind of sled for moving heavy objects.
    • 1984, Lois Phillips Hudson, The Bones of Plenty, page 204:
      They looped ropes around the stiff legbones of the first cow and pulled her body toward the stoneboat, resting between spurts of hauling.
    • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59:
      Each night the builder and the horse and the empty stone-boat left for the mountain.

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