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There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb toboggan. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
27 Σεπ 2024 · 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.
28 Απρ 2024 · toboggan (n.) "long, flat-bottomed sled," made of a single thickness of wood (usually birch), bent back at one end and used originally for transport over snow; 1829, from Canadian French tabagane , from an Algonquian language, such as Maleseet /thapaken/ [Bright].
The earliest known use of the noun toboggan is in the 1820s. OED's earliest evidence for toboggan is from 1829, in the writing of George Head, commissariat officer. toboggan is of multiple origins.
24 Ιουλ 2017 · “Toboggan” is one of a vast array of words used to describe a knit hat. The divergence between the two forms of toboggan is relatively easy to track: the use of “toboggan” to mean “sled”...
4 Φεβ 2011 · I'd always know the word "toboggan" to mean a sled. In the last couple years I've met people who insisted on calling their winter knit caps "toboggans." All of these people happened to be from either Kentucky or Tennessee.
22 Ιαν 2016 · “Toboggan” is a word with roots deep in the North American wilderness, from a time before Europeans arrived on the continent. The word comes from “a North American Indian name in Canada of a sleigh or sledge,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
