Drag, Drug, Drogue

The split log will be the runners of the sled. Himself will help with the next step of cutting heavy, old oak planks into four foot lengths. I have drilled holes in the logs and shaped the ends of a stout oak pole to use as the front brace. Don't even imagine that our sled will be this neat and pretty -- just don't.


I could not find the word “drogue” used to describe a wooden sled in the internet except in the book, Handy Farm Devices and how to make them . The book was copy writed in 1910. You wouldn’t think the word would have fallen from the English language so soon. One meaning found in an on-line dictionary: “Perhaps alteration of “drag”, “drug”. the other side