To “coast” on a sled. [The noun is old, being found in Marlowe’s ‘Tamburlaine the Great,’ Act I. Sc. i. See also the voluminous controversy on “the sledded Polack” of ‘Hamlet,’ summed up by Dr. Furness.]
1830. The western end of Garden Street [New York], was a hill called Flatten-barrack—a celebrated place for boys in winter, to sled down hill!—Watson, ‘Annals of Philadelphia,’ p. 36.
1833. There was also much sledding down the streets and hills descending to Pegg’s run.—The same, ‘Historic Tales of Philadelphia,’ p. 157.
