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stoneboat

stoneboat noun: a kind of sled for moving heavy objects.

Noun

stoneboat (plural stoneboats)

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

Forms of stoneboat

pluralstoneboats

Origin of stoneboat

From stone + boat.

Questions about stoneboat

What does stoneboat mean?
Stoneboat means a kind of sled for moving heavy objects.
What part of speech is stoneboat?
Stoneboat is a noun.
What is the plural of stoneboat?
The plural of stoneboat is stoneboats.

Words near stoneboat in the dictionary

  1. stonebird
  2. stonebirds
  3. stoneblower
  4. stoneblowers
  5. stoneblowing
  6. stoneboat
  7. stoneboats
  8. stonebound
  9. stonebow
  10. stonebows
  11. Stonebraker

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