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.

See also

• dray
• galamander
• sledge