toboggan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long, light sled with a curved-up front and no runners, used for carrying loads or sliding over snow

   The children pulled the wooden toboggan to the top of the hill.

2. 2
   verb

   to ride or travel on a toboggan, or to slide rapidly downhill as if on one

   They spent the afternoon tobogganing across the fresh snow.

3. 3
   noun

   North American regional: a close-fitting knitted winter cap

   He pulled a wool toboggan over his ears before going outside.

Through Canadian French tabagane and related spellings from an Algonquian language, probably Mi'kmaq tepaqan or Abenaki dabogan, naming a runnerless sled. The regional cap sense shortens toboggan cap, a cap suitable for winter sledding.

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