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US
/ˈsɫɛdʒ/
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[ UK /slˈɛdʒ/ ]
[ UK /slˈɛdʒ/ ]
VERB
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ride in or travel with a sledge
The children sledged all day by the lake
the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline - beat with a sledgehammer
- transport in a sleigh
NOUN
- 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
How To Use sledge In A Sentence
- These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
- As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
- I clung onto bits of ice and tried desperately to remove the harness attaching me to the sledge.
- The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
- Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- Just then, an ettin shoved a heavy sledge into view. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
- I grabbed an ice pick off the sledge and tramped away from the camp towards the face of Portal Mountain.
- This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it.
- It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch. The Sun
- Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
