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Definition: Sleigh |
SleighNoun1. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow. Verb1. Ride (on) a sled. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleigh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see a sleigh in your dreams, foretells you will fail in some love adventure, and incur the displeasure of a friend. To ride in one, foretells injudicious engagements will be entered into by you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: SleighSynonyms: sledge (n), sled (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sleigh |
| English words defined with "sleigh": Booby hut ♦ cascabel ♦ dog sleigh ♦ jingling, jingly ♦ pung ♦ Shoe bolt, sledding, sledge, sleigh bed, sleigh bell, Sleighing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sleigh": log sleigh ♦ Sleigh. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols. (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes) I keep hearing Santa's sleigh! (Animaniacs; writing credit: Nick Dubois; Peter Hastings) Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing but we got one little budge on those Roosskies. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) From what I see now, that will cut through the murkiest storm they can dish up. What I'm trying to say is, Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight? (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer; writing credit: Robert May; Romeo Muller) Red sleigh downred sleigh down! (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Tongue Twisters | Santa's sleigh slides on slick snow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sleigh Bells (1928) Buster's Sleigh Ride (1927) The Sleigh Belle (1907) Merry Sleigh Bells (1898) Ye Merry Sleigh Bells (1897) | |
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![]() | Bell UH-1M ready to load recruited reindeer for Santa's sleigh. Just kidding! Caribou passing by helicopter supporting bird observation camp on North Slope. Credit: Flying With NOAA. | ![]() | Smith family of New Hampshire on horse-drawn sleigh. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A horse-drawn sleigh pulls as men guide the Silver Dart, one of the Aerial Experiment Association's early airplanes, over the frozen Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Horse and sleigh on Valdez Trail to Fairbanks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Children on sleigh. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Logs being hauled on a sleigh by a team of horses along the government railway, 35 miles from Seward. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Children sleigh riding. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Sleigh for hire at snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | This cabin was mounted on sleigh last winter to transport four children to and from school. A stove was kept inside to protect them from the severe cold. The children only missed one day of school the entire winter. Used to leave the house at 6:30 a.m. so. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lincoln Memorial. Winter view of Lincoln Memorial with horses and sleigh I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn. |
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| "Sleigh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Sleigh" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.82% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sleigh" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sleigh | Last name | 200 | 31,109 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sleigh": bob sleigh ♦ dog sleigh ♦ jingle of sleigh bells ♦ log sleigh ♦ sleigh bed ♦ sleigh bell. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sleigh": sleigh-ride. | |
Ending with "sleigh": bob-sleigh, twin-sleigh. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sleigh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | slee (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | slitë (carriole, coaster, jumper, sled, sledge), sajë (carriole, carryall, jumper, sled, sledge, toboggan), rrëshqitëse (helter-skelter, runner, sledge, slide block, toboggan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزلقة (bobsled, drag, sled, sledge, surfboard, toboggan), مركبة الجليد, إنتقل بمركبة الجليد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | lera (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шейна (carriage, coaster, sled, slide, slide block), карам шейна (sled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 雪' (sled, sledge), 冰橇 (sled, sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sánì tažené konìm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slæde (beam head, saddle, sledge, slide, trawlhead), kane (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sleeen, slee (blackthorn, sledge), sleden (sledging, sleighing), slede (sledge), arreslee (sledge), ar (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sledo (sledge), glitveturilo (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sleta (sledge), sleða (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سورتمه راندن (Sled, Sledge), درشکه سورتمه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ajaa reellä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traîneau (sled, sledge), aller en traineau, aller en traîneau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | belslide (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlitten (car, carriage, cradle, motor, sled, sledge, slide, toboggan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλκηθρο χιόνοσ, έλκηθρο (bobsleigh, sled, sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מזחלת (sled, sledge), מ'רר" (sled, sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szánkó (Bob, jumper, sled, sledge, train), ródli (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | eretan (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | slitta (chassis, sled, sledge), tiro a slitta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 轌 (sled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そり (arch, curvature, curve, sled, warp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sleaydey (drag, draggle, draw along, dredge, dredging, sledge, trail), sleayd vooar, sleayd chabbil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | slede (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | tira (sledge), amach (sledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eighslay trenó (carriage-dog, sled, sledge), andar de trenó. (various references) sanie (luge, sledge, toboggan). (various references) санки (jumper, sledge), сани (sled, sledge, sledges, sleds, sleighs), нарты (dog sled, sledge). (various references) sanke (sled, sledge), sankati se (sled). (various references) trineo (sled, sledge, toboggan), endrino (blackthorn, sledge, sloe). (various references) släde (sledge, slide), kälke (bob sleigh, bob-sleigh, coaster, sled, sledge, toboggan). (various references) เ"ินทาง"้วยรถลากเลื่อนบนหิมะ, รถลากเลื่อนบนหิมะ. (various references) atlı kızakla gitmek, atlı kızak. (various references) сани (sledge). (various references) chó (doggie, doggy, sled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sleigh": sleighed, sleigher, sleighers, sleighing, sleighs, sleight, sleights. (additional references) | |
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"Sleigh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bleeaggh, Bleugh, Eleigh, leigh, Saligo, Salihu, Seidh, seig, Selig, Sheugh, slaigh, slaugh, slei, sleih, Slemish, sleugh, sluagh, sluigh, steigh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleigh" (pronounced slā") |
| 3 | s l ā" | slay. |
| 2 | -l ā" | allay, ballet, cabriolet, chalet, clay, delay, display, filet, fillet, flay, lay, lei, ley, ole, overplay, Palais, play, redisplay, replay, souffle, underplay, valet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: heils, shiel. | |
-2 letters: egis, elhi, gels, ghis, gies, heil, hies, isle, legs, leis, lies, sigh. | |
-3 letters: els, gel, ghi, gie, hes, hie, his, leg, lei, lie, lis, seg, sei, sel, she. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, es, he, hi, is, li, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: english, higgles, shingle, sleighs, sleight. | |
+2 letters: delights, fleishig, fleshing, ghillies, ghoulies, glitches, healings, heelings, helpings, higglers, leashing, lightens, lighters, lightest, megilphs, relights, shealing, shelling, shelving, shieling, shigella, shingled, shingler, shingles, sighless, sighlike, sleighed, sleigher, sleights, slighted, slighter, welshing. | |
+3 letters: angelfish, ashlering, athelings, blighters, blighties, busheling, chiseling, englished, englishes, fleshings, galabiehs, ghastlier, ghostlier, ghostlike, giltheads, globefish, hanseling, highlifes, hirelings, hirseling, homegirls, hosteling, houseling, lightless, lightness, lightsome, litharges, megaliths, megillahs, narghiles, nargilehs, nightless, penlights, philabegs, philibegs, plighters, regoliths, relishing, reshingle, safelight, shaveling, shealings, shearling, shelvings, shielding, shielings, shigellae, shigellas, shinglers, shlepping, shoveling, sidelight, sightless, sightlier, sleighers, sleighing, sleuthing, slightest, sloughier, thirlages, wheelings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 69 67 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . .. --. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e i g h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0069 0067 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537871757374 |
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