The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sledge \Sledge\, n. [AS. slecge,from sle['a]n to strike, beat. See Slay, v. t.] A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
With his heavy sledge he can it beat.
--Spenser.
Usage examples of "sledge hammer".
When he leaned over it felt like somebody was hitting his skull with a sledge hammer.
Foyle snatched up a sledge hammer, leaped on them like a caveman, and felled them.
The man who had been wielding the sledge hammer had not been hurt too much, either.
Mike said, stepping around the back of the chair to pick up the sledge hammer.
He took Civan and Giantia and Titania and some of the others to the dome and made them feel of it, made them kick the sledge hammer out of the snow, pick it up and each strike a great ringing blow on the mysterious sides of the dome.
The experiment was an absurdly simple one, involving only three ingredients: a pointed crowbar, a sledge hammer, and a frustrated engineer, who, despite strenuous efforts, had not yet succeeded in hammering the bar through the roof.
I came back out of them weak and headachy and wanting nothing so much as to go to bed, and Four Trey pointed to the sixteen-pound sledge hammer.