booby hut

noun

booby hut

noun
1

US, Dated, Dialectal A carriage body put upon sleigh runners.

  • January 5 1835, letter to Charles Matthew I induced him on Wednesday to accompany Mrs. Eliot and myself in a "Booby Hut," (for such is called a covered sleigh)

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