Sleigh

Definition: Sleigh

Sleigh

Noun

1. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow.

Verb

1. 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)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sleigh

Vehicle

Bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan.

Crosswords: Sleigh

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)

Santa's sleigh slides on slick snow. (references; author: unknown)

Sleigh Bells (1928)

Buster's Sleigh Ride (1927)

The Sleigh Belle (1907)

Merry Sleigh Bells (1898)

Ye Merry Sleigh Bells (1897)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Sleigh Ride in July (reference)

• Christmas Sleigh Ride (reference)

• Santa's Sleigh Ride : A Personalized Pop-Up Storybook (reference)

• Saw Mills & Sleigh Bells: Stories of Mid-Michigan Settlers (reference)

• Sleigh : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music of Leroy Anderson (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sleigh Ride (reference)

• Sleigh Ride! Classic Christmas Favorites (reference)

• You Sleigh Me: Alternative Christmas Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Sleigh Changing Table - White (reference)

• White Sleigh 3-in-1 Crib (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sleigh": bob sleigh ♦ dog sleigh ♦ jingle of sleigh bells ♦ log sleigh ♦ sleigh bed ♦ sleigh bell. Additional references.

Beginning with "sleigh": sleigh-ride.

Ending with "sleigh": bob-sleigh, twin-sleigh.

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

Portuguese

trenó (carriage-dog, sled, sledge), andar de trenó. (various references)

Romanian

sanie (luge, sledge, toboggan). (various references)

Russian 

санки (jumper, sledge), сани (sled, sledge, sledges, sleds, sleighs), нарты (dog sled, sledge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sanke (sled, sledge), sankati se (sled). (various references)

Spanish

trineo (sled, sledge, toboggan), endrino (blackthorn, sledge, sloe). (various references)

Swedish

släde (sledge, slide), kälke (bob sleigh, bob-sleigh, coaster, sled, sledge, toboggan). (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินทาง�"้วยรถลากเลื่อนบนหิมะ, รถลากเลื่อนบนหิมะ. (various references)

Turkish

atlı kızakla gitmek, atlı kızak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сани (sledge). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chó (doggie, doggy, sled). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sleigh": sleighed, sleigher, sleighers, sleighing, sleighs, sleight, sleights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

+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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