1. A boat for transporting stones.
c. 1336. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 533. Qui … reduxerunt Batellum vidz. le Stanbate.
1471. Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869), I. 25. Of ilk stane bot lossand in the havin j d.
1505. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 280. Ane stane bote at the New Havin.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., s.v. Stone-vessel, De Cessart’s machine for throwing large stones into the sea consisted of a pontoon carrying an inclined plane [etc.]. [title of figure] De Cessart’s Stone-Boat.
2. U.S. A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., s.v., The rise in front enables the stone-boat to ride over small obstacles.
1906. Daily Chron., 21 Sept., 4/4. They fetch the water every day in a barrel fixed in a kind of sled called a stone boat.
