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toboggan (n.)

"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian French tabagane, from an Algonquian language, such as Maleseet /thapaken/. The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.

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Definitions of toboggan from WordNet
1
toboggan (v.)
move along on a luge or toboggan;
Synonyms: luge
2
toboggan (n.)
a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front;
From wordnet.princeton.edu