democrat sleigh n Nth, esp NEast hist Cf DS N40a, b, c
A sleigh with a body like that of a democrat wagon n.
1865 Jackson Daily Citizen (MI) 24 Aug 1/4, [Advt:] Cheap for cash, . . One two-horse democrat sleigh. 1883 Buffalo Eve. News (NY) 13 Apr [8]/2, [Advt:] 1 democrat sleigh, two-seated. 1886 Hub 27.783/1 cPA, Mr. Jerome A. Flood, of Philipsburg, Centre Co., Pa., reports: “Including single, double and bob sleds and democrat sleighs, I have this season built 21 in all.” 1914 Norwich Bulletin (CT) 26 June [2]/8, [Advt:] 2 two-seat Democrat sleighs on springs and bobs. 1922 Boston Sun. Globe (MA) 1 Jan 17/3, [Advt:] Double-runner Democrat sleigh. 1949 Greenfield Recorder–Gaz. (MA) 3 May 12/3, [Advt:] Democrat sleigh. 1976 WI Then & Now Dec 2, [Caption:] Bundled against the cold, a family posed for a picture sitting in a pung, or democrat, sleigh on bob runners at the turn of the century. Ibid 3, The democrat sleigh, used by farmers and mail carriers, was a later version of the pung. 1990 Burlington Free Press (VT) 20 Sept sec B 4/5, [Advt:] Sleighs, wagons and buggy incl. . . Democrat sleigh.