toboggan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

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

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

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

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

   “McGinnity began to hit the toboggan in 1906, after he had pitched his arm off the previous year. Last season his efforts at times were painful.”

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

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

5. fiil To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.

   “Mr. Macaulay, the landlord, insisted upon trying to "toboggan" us down the mountain on the saddle cloth of one of the horses, an attempt that ended of course in disaster, for the surface was much too small for the three of us, and the snow too soft for the purpose.”

6. fiil To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.

   “A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse.”

7. fiil To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.

   “Aircraft returning to refuel at about three o'clock have tobogganed down to their spats in the mud whilst early in the morning one could bounce a crowbar on the frozen ground.”