Sledging

Definitions

1. The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
   countable, uncountable
3. The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting the batter.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.”

“It is necessary, therefore, to force⟳ the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means;”

“Mind⟳ you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself.”

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