sledge

sledge
sledge1
/slej/, n., v., sledged, sledging.
n.
1. a vehicle of various forms, mounted on runners and often drawn by draft animals, used for traveling or for conveying loads over snow, ice, rough ground, etc.
2. a sled.
3. Brit. a sleigh.
v.t., v.i.
4. to convey or travel by sledge.
v.i.
5. Brit. to sleigh.
[1595-1605; < dial. D sleeds, deriv. of slede SLED; cf. SLEIGH]
sledge2
/slej/, n., v.t., v.i., sledged, sledging.
sledgehammer (defs. 1, 2).
[bef. 1000; ME slegge, OE slecg; c. D slegge, ON sleggja; akin to SLAY]

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▪ carrying device
      any freight- or passenger-carrying device that is dragged or pushed without the aid of wheels. The travois of the North American Indian was a sledge consisting of two transversely connected wooden shafts dragged at an angle to the ground. Sledges date back to antiquity; Assyrian and Egyptian reliefs depict huge statues being pulled by sledge. The arrival of the wheel and axle ended the use of the sledge except in its snow-and-ice surface form of sled—a body mounted on runners. See also litter.

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