horse and sleigh

noun, a single horse pulling a sleigh; compare team and sleigh

“I remember when the road on Wolfe Island was completely blocked, and Dad used to take us to school with the horse and sleigh.”

“In those days, you could always go because it was horse and sleigh or horse and cutter.”

“I mean we used to take the sleighs across there, the horse and sleighs, in the wintertime and sell hay.”

“He had the horse and sleigh and a couple of horses.”

“They used to travel by horse and sleigh or however they could get there.”

“They all came by horse and sleigh to the concert, and there’s pictures on the movie camera of them when they came by horse and sleigh.”

“They only had like two snowplows at that time, two old snowplows, and there’s no way that they could ever keep the roads going for a little while anyway. And everybody went on their horse and sleighs, horse and cutters.”

“We used to come home weekends, though, if we could. We’d come down to the slip on West Street and come home usually by horse and sleigh.”

“See the boat could only get in here so far in the wintertime, so they’d go out. And then Christmas Day it was minus seventeen celsius, and there was a whole load of kids and families heading back. It was the last boat of the day heading back to town. Coming close to the boat … horse and sleigh go through the ice. Captain boomed open the door and said ‘Everyone, don’t panic. Don’t panic. I’ll get you out’.”

“They called it ‘run a stage’. And they’d be there on the ice, and anybody that wanted to go to town on the ice with the horse and sleigh, they’d pay so much to get on the sleigh, and he’d take them over, and then there’d be a bunch to come back.”