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Definition of Bobsleighs
1. bobsleigh [n] - See also: bobsleigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobsleighs
Literary usage of Bobsleighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1872)
"Instead of this, the case shows, if it shows any thing about the balance of the
hay, that the hay, the black mare, the double harness and the bobsleighs ..."
2. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"... Schatz-Alp road for bobsleighs. Klosters (3937'; p. 403), close by, is quieter.
The third place is taken by Arosa /5740'-6200'; p. ..."
3. The Technical World Magazine (1909)
"The large boiler shown in the illustration is mounted on double bobsleighs, and
ten horses attached to it by heavy chains, are required to draw it. ..."
4. Canadian Poets and Poetry by John William Garvin (1916)
"... bobsleighs, cutters; Upset loads of bolts, staves, cordwood, loads of logs
and hay; Jolted threshing machines, traction engines, automobiles, ..."
5. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1901)
"... and it was necessary to make a road passable for a pair of bobsleighs and team
of horses. These belongings, some of which were luxuries, ..."
6. A Roumanian Diary: 1915, 1916, 1917 by Dorothy Katherine (Barclay) Kennard (1917)
"bobsleighs and skis multiplied with marvellous rapidity, and those amongst us
who ignored the possibilities of both were invited to go "footing" for miles ..."
7. The Strategy of Great Railroads by Frank Hamilton Spearman (1904)
"Forthwith the men of Erie took to their bobsleighs and cutters, and with their
muskets raced madly to Harbor Creek. The rumour proved false; an altercation ..."
8. Hungary: A Sketch of the Country, Its People and Its Conditions by Gyula Vargha (1908)
"The whole neighbourhood is alive; all kinds of winter sports are engaged in;
swift sleighs and bobsleighs, skis and snow-shoes offer a variety of ..."
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