Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoneboats
Literary usage of Stoneboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky by Ernest Ingersoll (1885)
"... out blocks that were dragged by stoneboats, or sent along the tramway down to
where they could be loaded upon the railroad cars. ..."
2. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky by Ernest Ingersoll (1888)
"Men were at work as we passed, splitting out blocks that were dragged by stoneboats,
or sent along the tramway down to where they could be loaded upon the ..."
3. Canadian Poets by John William Garvin (1916)
"... crotches, stoneboats, bobsleighs, cutters; Upset loads of bolts, staves,
cordwood, loads of logs and hay; Jolted threshing machines, traction engines, ..."
4. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"... Supposing the 11.2 stoneboats to have been equal to 3% fresnos, this would
give 58.5 cu. yd. per day per fresno. The cost would be about 17% ct. per yd. ..."
5. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"... Supposing the 11.2 stoneboats to have been equal to 3% fresnos, this would
give 58.5 cu. yd. per day per fresno. The cost would be about 17% ct. per yd. ..."
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