Crossword clues for sledge
sledge
- Vehicle on runners
- Big hammer
- "When a Man Loves a Woman" singer Percy __
- Two-handed hammer
- Pulled vehicle
- One with a heavy head
- Log splitter's tool
- Large hammer
- Demolition tool
- Wall-busting tool
- Vehicle for travelling over snow
- Type of heavy hammer
- Two-handed tool
- Tool used when the stakes are high?
- Start to hammer?
- Star to hammer?
- Sister ___ ("We Are Family" singers)
- Sister ___
- Rough terrain vehicle
- R&B singer Percy
- Percy who sang "When a Man Loves a Woman"
- Percy or Sister of song
- Log splitter's hammer
- Large pounding tool, ...hammer
- It's drawn across snow
- Huge hammer
- Hammer requiring two hands
- Hammer for John Henry
- Hammer attachment?
- Big John's tool
- Kind of hammer
- Heavy tool
- Heavy hammer
- Hard hitter
- Arctic transport
- Vehicle drawn by draft animals
- Heavy hitters
- A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs
- For transportation over snow
- A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
- Wield a heavy hammer
- Yukon vehicle
- Tool or vehicle
- Snow vehicle
- Hammer type
- Primitve conveyance
- Vehicle with runners
- Type of hammer
- Winter slider
- Small shelf on which to put slipper?
- Small shelf for hammer
- Runners on this start to slow step
- Republican leaving mass meetings to supporters
- Harass one who's in vehicle going downhill?
- Hammer old Bob put on shelf
- Toboggan son used on rocky ridge
- Toboggan beginning to slide over projecting shelf
- Toboggan initially stored on shelf
- Winter vehicle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sled \Sled\ (sl[e^]d), n. [Akin to D. slede, G. schlitten, OHG. slito, Icel. sle[eth]i, Sw. sl["a]de, Dan. sl[ae]de, and E. slide, v. See Slide, and cf. Sledge a vehicle, Sleigh.]
A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heavy hammer," Old English slecg "hammer, mallet," from Proto-Germanic *slagjo- (cognates: Old Norse sleggja, Middle Swedish sleggia "sledgehammer"), related to slege "beating, blow, stroke" and slean "to strike" (see slay (v.)). Sledgehammer is pleonastic.
"sleigh," 1610s, from dialectal Dutch sleedse, variant of slede (see sled (n.)); said by OED to be perhaps of Frisian origin.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. vb. to hit with a sledgehammer. Etymology 2
n. 1 A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. 2 (context British English) any type of sled or sleigh. 3 A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge. vb. 1 To drag or draw a sledge. 2 To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge. Etymology 3
vb. (context chiefly cricket Australian English) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).
WordNet
n. a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sleigh]
a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledgehammer]
v. transport in a sleigh
ride in or travel with a sledge; "the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline"; "The children sledged all day by the lake"
beat with a sledgehammer [syn: sledgehammer]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 185
Land area (2000): 0.523085 sq. miles (1.354785 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.523085 sq. miles (1.354785 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68400
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.433030 N, 90.220111 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38670
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Headwords:
Sledge
Wikipedia
A sledge, or sled, is a vehicle with runners for sliding.
Sledge may also refer to:
- Sledge (surname)
- Sledge (band), an American rock band of the late 1980s-early 1990s
- Sister Sledge, an American musical group from Philadelphia
- Sledge, Mississippi, United States
- Sledgehammer, a large hammer
- Sledge (Transformers), a fictional character
Sledge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Eugene Sledge (1923–2001), U.S. Marine, university professor, and author
- James Scott Sledge (21st century), Chief Copyright Royalty Judge of the American Copyright Royalty Board
- Kathy Sledge (born 1959), American singer
- Percy Sledge (1940–2015), African-American rhythm and blues singer
- Robert Sledge (21st century), American double-bassist
- Terrmel Sledge (born 1977), American baseball player
Usage examples of "sledge".
Transport aircraft land daily on our airfield bringing fur clothing, skis, sledges and other things.
Mother and I unhitched Bor from the sledge and followed, pulling the horse behind us up the steep bank that formed the doorstep.
Vigut carried her straight inside the hall when we arrived, leaving me to see to Bor and the sledge.
Each was tamped in with a round caulking tool of the size of the hole driven with a sledge hammer.
Germans settled there, attend with sledges, on which they draw the loaded batteaux to the next place of embarkation upon the same river.
And then his thoughts swung back to Harbin Fashnalgid, last seen when Uuundaamp had turned him off the sledge.
Hassel and the Vapour-bath 330 Midwinter Day, June, 1911 362 Our Ski-binding in its Final Form 364 At Work on Personal Outfit 364 Trying on Patent Goggles 368 Hassel in the Oil-store 368 Deep in Thought 372 Funcho 372 The Loaded Sledges in the Clothing Store 374 Sledges Ready for Use Being Hauled Out of the Store-room 374 At the Depot in Lat.
The four who were to continue the work at the station -- Wisting, Hassel, Stubberud, and Bjaaland -- now had as much as their sledges could carry.
Baa Hef continued to hammer the console, it shattered, and the sledge smashed through the electronics concealed within.
As she searched quickly for a weapon, drawer to drawer, cupboard to cupboard, the bones in her legs jellified, while her heart hardened into a sledge that hammered against her ribs.
The road was smooth and the snow firm, and they were travelling in a kibitkas, a hooded sledge normally drawn by one horse, but Leonid Matveyich had a troika team trained to draw it, a fast trotting horse in the middle, and a galloper on either side, so they raced along in fine style, well huddled up in furs, with thick straw about their booted feet and a hot, flannel-wrapped brick each to hold on the lap or put under the feet, and reached the Bednyak estate well inside the estimated two hours.
Vaksdal, Keller and I lay were struck and Kyrre set out with his men and the first convoy of sledges loaded with whale-meat.
Saban followed the sledge and Leir ran after him with tears in his eyes.
Aurenna paced alongside, followed by the crowd, and when the boulder had gone past the temple she called for Leir to jump down from the sledge and follow her home.
They had hauled all day, they had even pulled the great sledge up the hill south of Maden, and now they were spent so they left the sledge in the middle of the wood and walked south towards Ratharryn where they expected to be fed.