Definition of Taboggan

1. to slide on ice or snow [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taboggan

tabling
tablings
tabloid
tabloidese
tabloidish
tabloidism
tabloidization
tabloidize
tabloidized
tabloidizes
tabloidizing
tabloids
tabloidy
tabnab
tabnabs
taboggan (current term)
taboggans
tabon-tabon
taboo slang
tabooed
tabooing
tabooley
tabooleys
tabooli
taboos
taboparesis
tabor
tabor pipe
tabored

Literary usage of Taboggan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"Every now and then I had to cross a patch of hard snow or ice so steep I must clutch with toes, heels, knees, and fingernails to keep from doing a taboggan ..."

2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1880)
"I had steered my taboggan down the ice-cone at the Falls of Montmorenci; I had driven a sleigh, tete-b-tete with a French Canadian belle, to a surprise ..."

3. The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert by Albert Hastings Markham (1894)
"... that the fearfully rugged nature of the road would neces- 3753 lbs., or 268 lbs. per man; besides four light taboggan sledges weighing 26 lbs. each. ..."

4. Occupation Therapy; a Manual for Nurses by William Rush Dunton (1915)
"... 156 Book collecting, 170 scrap, 160 Borders, basketry, 143 Braiding, 87 CANING chairs, 154 Cap, taboggan, 102 Card games, 55 trick, 56 Casts, plaster, ..."

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