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View synonyms for sleigh

sleigh

[ sley ]

noun

  1. a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
  2. a sled.


verb (used without object)

  1. to travel or ride in a sleigh.

sleigh

/ sleɪ /

noun

  1. another name for sledge 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr to travel by sleigh
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈsleigher, noun
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Other Words From

  • sleigher noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleigh1

1690–1700, Americanism; < Dutch slee, variant of slede sled; slide
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleigh1

C18: from Dutch slee, variant of slede sledge 1
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Example Sentences

Feel free to take them outside for a hike, a sleigh ride, or a few trips down the slopes.

An 1846 American patent for a sleigh dashboard may well be the earliest use of the term.

N’awlins’ own Big Freedia brings us a sleigh full of new music in the form of her Smokin’ Santa Christmas album.

That allows the radar to determine when there is something flying through their range — such as a large man in a red suit on a sleigh.

At the Retreat, Links and Spa at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Oregon, guests are sent out on sleigh rides with thermoses of this house-made hot chocolate at the ready.

In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.

Yes, the future lawmaker built up a full-service Santa business with a sleigh pulled by real reindeer.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

Just as Mr. Darwood drove around to the door with his sleigh Andy came back to the farmhouse.

The sleigh, with the horses prancing, swept on and did not even stop for its occupants to note the damage it had done.

Perhaps the appearance of another iceboat that had just passed the sleigh had startled the horses.

Plornish had a broken leg and had to be lifted by both boys into the Pendleton sleigh.

Why, Lil Pendleton and the stage manager are out there in the Pendletons sleigh.

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