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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sledge.

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Examples

  • In 2005 in England, he was a little boy lost, and on his first Australia tour he was famously sledged as the "Shermanator" by Shane Warne and he never quite delivered as England were whitewashed 5‑0.

    Ian Bell finally earns his England spurs thanks to putting his feet up David Hopps 2010

  • I gingerly walked on it, and dog-sledged for hours along steep, white, glistening fields behind a fan of fifteen Greenlandic dogs and an Inuit driver sharing my sledge.

    Lea Lane: I Saw Greenland Melting 2009

  • They are being burned to death, sledged hammered to death, axed to death.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2009 2009

  • I gingerly walked on it, and dog-sledged for hours along steep, white, glistening fields behind a fan of fifteen Greenlandic dogs and an Inuit driver sharing my sledge.

    Lea Lane: Eyewitness To A Melting World 2008

  • “Yes,” agrees Fitzjames, “but you were wise to have the gear and provisions sledged to King William Land in August.”

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • I confess that when I first sledged within sight of the place last week, the first Image that came to mind was something out of Homer's Iliad.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Five of the Des Voeux champion team were not able to walk the last mile to Terror but had to be sledged there by their mates.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Everyone who had sledged to King William Land and camped out there on the ice knew this.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Before leaving on Thursday, Crozier rehearsed taking the six sledged boats off, collapsing the heavy sledges as much as they had been designed to be collapsed or broken down, and stowing them properly in the boats.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • A week ago — in the Stores Tent on the ice outside HMS Terror — I personally presided over the decanting of our remaining volumes of Vinegar from casks to be proportioned out into 18 Smaller Kegs — one for each boat that had been sledged to Terror Camp.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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