sledge
noun
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.
sledges
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present tense formof sledge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It is a Grand Anvil Chorus that these sturdy sledges are playing across the plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
It’s generally believed that the Egyptians moved massive stone blocks to the heights along large ramps, greased by water or wet clay, using a system of sledges, ropes, rollers, and levers.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2023
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
While McNeish and McLeod began fitting the lifeboats onto sledges, the rest of the crew began sorting their equipment.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
