sledge
IPA: sɫˈɛdʒ
noun
- A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
- A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
- (Britain) any type of sled or sleigh.
- A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
- (chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging.
- A surname.
verb
- To hit with a sledgehammer.
- To drag or draw a sledge.
- To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
- (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).
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Examples of "sledge" in Sentences
- The phrase sledge hammer to crack a nut seems to apply.
- "Your sledge is waiting, Madame," announced the newcomer.
- The sledge is a more serious device for this longer trip.
- The fourth gold was in sledge hockey, in which the U.S. men beat Japan 2-0 in the final.
- The wind blows snow around the abandoned and empty sledge, which is little more than runners now.
- Sled hockey called sledge hockey in Canada is an amazing sport, something you have to see to appreciate.
- “The pinnace is all busted up and rigged for river work and the sledge is a pain in the arse to drag,” said Hickey.
- Going inside this diminutive raised room perched on a sledge is a surreal experience and one of those defining moments of a fieldwork trip.
- The sawing heartbeat of a panther morphs into a subway train sledge-hammering, smashing the ground, until it screeches to a morse code halt.
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