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train 1 n . . . a big boy, if there was one, piled a load [of fire wood]on a train. He then draged it to the church and and packed it in the required place at the back. The "train" is a long sleigh locally built and was used mostly for country travel hitched to two dogs. . . . The "tr...
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| Language: | English |
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1973
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/72969 |
| Summary: | train 1 n . . . a big boy, if there was one, piled a load [of fire wood]on a train. He then draged it to the church and and packed it in the required place at the back. The "train" is a long sleigh locally built and was used mostly for country travel hitched to two dogs. . . . The "train" is a wooden sleigh strongly built and with "iron shoes" (steel bands) along the bottom of the runners. An average size train was about seven feet long, six or seven inches high and about two feet wide. (see other side for illus.] [reverse] Before the boards are [image] put on Holes <--- for tying <--- [image] the dogs to. DNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973 Used I Used I and Sup Used I [see also 'geared-in'] Reverse at T_14969. |
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