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sledge

1

[ slej ]

noun

  1. a vehicle of various forms, mounted on runners and often drawn by draft animals, used for traveling or for conveying loads over snow, ice, rough ground, etc.
  2. a sled.
  3. British. a sleigh.


verb (used with or without object)

, sledged, sledg·ing.
  1. to convey or travel by sledge.

verb (used without object)

, sledged, sledg·ing.
  1. British. to sleigh.

sledge

2

[ slej ]

noun

, sledged, sledg·ing.

sledge

1

/ slɛdʒ /

verb

  1. tr to bait (an opponent, esp a batsman in cricket) in order to upset his concentration
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noun

  1. an insult aimed at another player during a game of cricket
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sledge

2

/ slɛd; slɛdʒ /

noun

  1. Also calledsleigh a vehicle mounted on runners, drawn by horses or dogs, for transporting people or goods, esp over snow
  2. a light wooden frame used, esp by children, for sliding over snow; toboggan
  3. a farm vehicle mounted on runners, for use on rough or muddy ground
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verb

  1. to convey, travel, or go by sledge
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sledge

3

/ slɛdʒ /

noun

  1. short for sledgehammer
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Derived Forms

  • ˈsledger, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sledge1

1595–1605; < dialectal Dutch sleeds, derivative of slede sled; sleigh

Origin of sledge2

before 1000; Middle English slegge, Old English slecg; cognate with Dutch slegge, Old Norse sleggja; akin to slay
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sledge1

of uncertain origin; perhaps from sledgehammer

Origin of sledge2

C17: from Middle Dutch sleedse; C14 sled, from Middle Low German, from Old Norse slethi, related to slide
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Example Sentences

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the crash.

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Instead, he appeared on Kremlin-controlled television, filmed wandering through a Moscow suburb, reminiscing in perfect Russian about sledging on cardboard as a child.

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Swiss police have opened an investigation into a ski hire shop's announcement it would no longer rent skis and sledges to Jewish customers.

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There is hardly any snow at Asia’s largest ski terrain in Gulmarg where thousands of domestic and international tourists would usually visit to ski and sledge its stunning snowscape in winter.

Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge, and trek the Himalayan landscape.

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