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old sledge

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Word History and Origins

Origin of old sledge1

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30
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Example Sentences

It is our old sledge—the one the dogs ran away with.

The prosecutor, being entirely unacquainted with games at cards, did not know the fact that both 'seven-up' and 'old sledge' were one and the same.

She pulled her rude old sledge alongside his bunk, and kissed him, and showed him how to shift and drop himself upon the plank.

Still later in the Fall the Parson sat in the Howling Wilderness, with his back to the blazing, crackling fire, having it all his own way at his favorite game of old sledge.

Jimmy started a new deal, but The Orphan objected to old sledge and wanted poker, at the same time throwing a bag of dust down in front of him.

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