Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vehicle having runners and used for carrying people or loads over ice and snow; a sledge.
- noun A light vehicle, often with runners, used especially by children for coasting over snow or ice.
- noun Informal A snowmobile.
- noun A movable, slotted surface that slides over the blade of a table saw, used to ensure accurate cuts.
- intransitive verb To carry on or convey by a sled.
- intransitive verb To ride or use a sled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small tool, resembling a sled in form and having sharp blades for runners, used for cutting gold-leaf into rectangular sheets.
- noun The device for making sliding contact between the underground conductors of an electric road and those of a moving railway-car upon the road.
- noun Same as
sledge , sledge-hammer. - To convey or transport on a sled: as, to
sled wood or timber. - To ride or travel in a sled: sometimes with an impersonal it.
- To be carried or transported on a sled.
- noun A drag or dray without wheels, but mounted on runners, for the conveyance of loads over frozen snow or ice, or over mud or the bare ground, as in transporting logs and heavy stones. Also
sledge . - noun A pair of runners connected by a framework, used (sometimes with another pair) to carry loads or support the body of a vehicle, or, when of lighter build and supporting a light platform or seat, in the sport of coasting and for drawing light loads by hand.
- noun A vehicle moving on runners, drawn by horses, dogs, or reindeer; a sleigh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To convey or transport on a sled.
- noun A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called
sledge . - noun A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "
sleigh " is.) - noun US A
vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh ", which is larger) - verb To
ride a sled.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- verb ride (on) a sled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Charley, -- more than one sled is necessary when a woman like
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Crash or no crash, the sled is still travelling about 80 miles an hour at the bottom of the track.
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The sled is completely flexible over blow downs, rocks and ground debris.
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The sled is completely flexible over blow downs, rocks and ground debris.
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Charley, -- more than one sled is necessary when a woman like
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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Joy gives him his Yukon nickname after he devises a tarpaulin sled to carry a half a ton of goods by sliding the cargo down a glacier.
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The new sled is meant to replace the one he had in Colorado, back with his family.
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The Lead sled is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.
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Back to the original topic, I agree that the lead sled is an atrocity.
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The Brazilian bobsled team, the only sled from the tropics in the Olympic competition, crashed about two-thirds of the way down the track in its first run, sliding across the finish line with the sled on its side.
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