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  • noun Plural form of sleigh.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sleigh.

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    Say 'neigh' to horse-drawn 'sleighs' 2008

  • (The young characters ride in sleighs between dachas over the legendary Russian snow while their parents stay home worrying about money, as if prosperity, with all its glamour, were a show, presented generation after generation, for the benefit of the children.)

    Found in Translation? 2006

  • (The young characters ride in sleighs between dachas over the legendary Russian snow while their parents stay home worrying about money, as if prosperity, with all its glamour, were a show, presented generation after generation, for the benefit of the children.)

    Found in Translation? 2006

  • (The young characters ride in sleighs between dachas over the legendary Russian snow while their parents stay home worrying about money, as if prosperity, with all its glamour, were a show, presented generation after generation, for the benefit of the children.)

    Found in Translation? 2006

  • For a short sojourn, and with no necessity for fifty miles 'journeys in sleighs and such-like fatiguing expeditions, we are simply unspeakably fortunate in the climate.

    Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896

  • In one of the sleighs was a lady, who at the moment of passing him lost a bracelet from her arm, which fell on the snow.

    The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People

  • In one of the sleighs was a lady, who at the moment of passing him lost a bracelet from her arm, which fell on the snow.

    The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor

  • Sometimes each rider has a horse, and they race horses just as though they were riding in sleighs.

    The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914

  • The place where the other teams were could be recognized by the heaps of snow, though not all the sleighs were entirely covered with snow; in front of some of the sleighs were the horses up to their bellies, in the posture of their last effort to run.

    The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • Over these roads sleighs, that is carts on runners, were able to travel faster than those on wheels.

    Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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