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noun
A customized horse- or ox-drawn stoneboat or wagon once used for hauling stone from quarries, with smaller front wheels and larger rear ones, and a derrick to lift blocks of stone on and off the vehicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Maine, historical
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unknown; said to have been coined by an American blacksmith Elder Littlefield, and possibly from galley (“type of boat”) + meander (“to turn or wind in a course or passage”).
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