toboggan

Các nghĩa

1. xe trượt tuyết không có lưỡi, đầu cong lên

   A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.

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   Toboggan has not yet found its Way into the dictionaries, and there are other ways of spelling it.

   The “toboggan” is a light flat sleigh, used by the Canadian aborigines to bring home over the snow the spoils of the hunt.

   The toboggan may be described as a flat plank turned up at one end.

2. xe trượt tuyết bằng gỗ do chó kéo, có thể có lưỡi thép

   A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.

   canada · us · error-lua-timeout

   The old toboggan has been laid aside, and sleighs or waggons dash along the streets.

   These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan.

3. điều gì đó một khi đã bắt đầu thì không thể dừng lại

   Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.

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   If we were to hit the toboggan of a depression, wages would drop.

   Farming was on “the toboggan.” New settlers who had purchased land could not meet their deferred payments.

   The fact that I agreed showed that there was no hope of getting off the toboggan more than momentarily.

4. mũ len

   A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.

   southern-us · virginia · west · error-lua-timeout

   Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.

   Sissy bounded back in dressed in a heavy sweater and toboggan.

   We used an old toboggan stuffed with cotton for the ball, and it served the purpose very well.

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• toboggans plural