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Sledge   /slɛdʒ/   Listen
noun
Sledge  n.  
1.
A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
2.
A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution. (Eng.)
3.
A sleigh. (Eng.)
4.
A game at cards; called also old sledge, and all fours.


Sledge  n.  A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; called also sledge hammer. "With his heavy sledge he can it beat."


verb
Sledge  v. i. & v. t.  (past & past part. sledged; pres. part. sledging)  To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.





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"Sledge" Quotes from Famous Books



... frozen river, just in front of the gate of the fort, a group of men and dogs were assembled. The dogs were four in number, harnessed to a small flat sledge of the slender kind used by Indians to drag their furs and provisions over the snow. The group of men was composed of Mr. Rogan and the inmates of Bachelors' Hall, one or two men who happened to be engaged there at the ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... and by, one cold winter's morning, men came with a sledge and horses, and after they had cut here and there they came to the circle of trees round the Little Fir Tree, ...
— Stories to Tell to Children • Sara Cone Bryant
... such a bitter day that we worked only three hours and came back to the house and played Old Sledge by the fireside. ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... the southern and supporting parties at a point 67 miles south of Commonwealth Bay. Murphy, Laseron, and Hunter packing sledge in the foreground; Bage ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... punksky'—what are they saying, Mr. Moonman?" "Nayato is telling Polpo of the narrow escape his father had yesterday," I replied. "It seems that he was out on the flat ice looking out for seals. He had just harpooned a fine fellow, and was just on the point of putting him on his sledge, when he heard a loud snuffling noise behind him; and turning round, saw to his horror a huge white bear, squatting on the ice within a few yards of him, and apparently trying to decide whether the seal or the seal-hunter would make the more savory meal. Wallop, ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards


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