[Ads-l] Nantucket sleigh ride

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has it ("...towing of a boat by a harpooned whale...") from 1835.

It was not probable, he remarked, that Raymond would have any chance for a "Nantucket sleigh ride" this side of the land, for whales were getting scarce in the Atlantic...
[[but, later...]]

Ballou's Monthly Magazine 53.3 (1831) 282/1. Raymond Mortimer, by George H. Coomer [Google Books]

SG

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