sledges
Meaning of sledges
- a vehicle on runners for conveying loads or passengers over snow or ice, often pulled by draught animals.
a dog sledge
a sledge journey
- travel or slide downhill over snow on a sledge.
they sledged down the slopes in the frozen snow
children built snowmen and went sledging after hundreds of schools shut
late 16th century (as a noun): from Middle Dutch sleedse ; related to sled. The verb dates from the early 18th century.
verb, 3rd person present- make taunting or teasing remarks to (an opposing player, especially a batsman) in order to disturb their concentration.
Zol smashed Zaheer for a couple of fours immediately after being sledged by the veteran seamer
in Australia he stared down batsmen, sledged, swore, and kept coming at them
- a taunting or teasing remark made to an opposing player in order to disturb their concentration.
he was upset after a very personal sledge by the Australian captain
1970s: from sledging2.
plural noun
a sledgehammer.
Old English slecg (noun), from a Germanic base meaning ‘to strike’, related to slay1.
Information about sledges
- The singular form of sledges is: sledge.
- Languages in which sledges is used:
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Hyphenation of sledges
sledges
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- sledges is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
sledges synonyms
Meaning a long, light, narrow vehicle, typically on runners, used for sliding downhill over snow or ice:
Meaning a mechanically steered and braked sled, typically manned by crews of two or four, used for racing down a steep ice-covered run with banked curves; a bobsleigh:
Meaning a light toboggan for one or two people, ridden in a sitting or supine position:
Meaning a mechanically steered and braked sledge, typically for two or four people, used for racing down an ice-covered run:
Meaning a sledge drawn by horses or reindeer, especially one used for passengers:
Meaning a small mat for a bottle or glass:
Meaning a person or thing that cuts something:
Meaning another term for sledge1:
Meaning a small open horse-drawn carriage for one person:
Meaning a type of covered Russian sledge:
Meaning a Russian vehicle pulled by a team of three horses abreast:
Meaning a sledge drawn by dogs, used by the people of Labrador:
Meaning a type of sledge formerly used by North American Indians (especially of the Great Plains) to carry goods, consisting of two joined poles pulled by a horse or dog:
Words that rhyme with sledges
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