sledge

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It seems wonderful that we keep on the sledge, for we have no means of holding on except by pressing our feet against the battens; yet in the grand and final upset at the bottom of the hill, the sledge is there too, and we find we have never parted company from it Will any one believe that after such a perilous journey, I could actually be persuaded to try again?

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  1. noun A vehicle mounted on low runners drawn by work animals, such as horses or dogs, and used for transporting loads across ice, snow, and rough ground.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To convey or travel on a sledge.

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  • We shall neither of us ever forget how just below the Hospice your sledge was actually blown over by the mere fury of the blizzard; how we tramped through the drifts, and how all ended in “the welcome of an inn” on the summit; the hot soup and the Côtelettes de Veau . —  The Adventure of Living
  • I did not know she was with that sledge, and though I had only a glimpse of it, I will swear that the sledge was empty There were two men ran out after the firing," cried Stane. —  A Mating in the Wilds
  • I did not know where to look for my sledge--I did not try. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • The dogs are short-legged and very hairy, with long snouts, sharp-pointed ears, and the tails of wolves; the sledge is a simple toboggan made of two pieces of birch nine feet in length, their ends turned high in front. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
  • Eatum had taught us how to construct a snow hut, so that we felt sure of being able to shelter ourselves from the storms But the sledge was the great difficulty. —  Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
 

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sleigh ·  sledgehammer ·  mallet ·  shovel ·  ax ·  cart ·  hammer ·  chisel ·  ski ·  sledge-hammer ·  oar ·  barge
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  1. Dutch dialectal sleedse, perhaps diminutive of Dutch slede, sled, from Middle Dutch sledde.

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  1. from Middle English slegge, from Anglo-Saxon slecg, slege (also, in a Kentish gloss, slicc), a heavy hammer, = Icelandic sleggja = Swedish slägga, a sledge, = Dutch slegge, slei, a mallet, = Old High German slaga, Middle High German slage, slā, German schlage, a tool for striking (cf. Anglo-Saxon slegcle, a plectrum, Dutch slagel = German schlägel, a sledge), literally ‘striker,’ ‘smiter,’ from sleán (past participle slegen), strike, smite: see slay. Cf. slay.
  2. Another form of sled, whether (a) by mere confusion with sledge, or (b) by confusion with sleds, plural of sled: see sled.
  3. from sledge, n.
 

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