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Webster 1913 Edition


Toboggan

To-bog′gan

,
Noun.
[Corruption of American Indian
odabagan
a sled.]
A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
[Written also
tobogan
, and
tarbogan
.]

To-bog′gan

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tobogganed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tobogganing
.]
To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Barilett.