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noun
Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England
.
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
Origin:
1815–25,
Americanism
;
short for
tom-pung,
ultimately < the same Algonquian etymon as
toboggan
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pung
(pʌŋ)
—
n
(
Eastern US
), (
Canadian
) a horse-drawn sleigh with a boxlike body on runners
[C19: shortened from Algonquian
tom-pung;
compare
toboggan
]
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