Meaning of Sledge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of sledging.
   Australia
2. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
3. A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
4. A surname.
5. any type of sled or sleigh.
   British
6. A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.

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Examples

“[based on information from Major Hill, Master of the Silver Mills, in 1662, describing silver mining in Cardiganshire] They dig the Oar thus; One holds a little Picque, or Punch of Iron, having a long Handle of Wood which they call a Gad; Another with a great Iron Hammer, or Sledge, drives it into the Vein.”

“Sledge hammers are only used for heavy-duty persuading when working on vehicles or machinery.”

“The sledge ran far better upon the ice; I cannot say the same for the dogs.”

“The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.”

“Aged wore out Coal-Horses, which after some time Wrought you will have, may serve turn for Sledge-Horses.”

“Ty'd upon the Sledge, a Papist and a Protestant in front, being two very disparate and antipathetick Companions, was a very ridiculous Science of Cruelty, even worst than Death it self (says he).”

“There are also Winter Paralympic Games with Alpine and Nordic events, as well as sledge hockey - a form of ice hockey using a seated sledge.”

“For anyone who can recall their schooldays, when you used to get snow every winter, flying down hills on a polythene bag the thickness of an atom, and a lovely old sledge your Grandpa made for you (the only Christmas it DIDN'T snow),...”

“Now that's what I call a sledge.”

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