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Definition: Sledge |
SledgeNoun1. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow. 2. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges. Verb1. Ride in a sleigh. 2. Transport in a sleigh. 3. Travel with a sledge; "the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline". 4. Beat with a sledgehammer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sledge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | Small sled used for coasting especially in Switzerland. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A strong heart-shaped iron frame fitted at each end of a trawl beam. The after side is straight and slopes upward of each head to stake the ropes or wires by which the trawl is towed. The sides of the net are seized or lashed at a point close to the ground. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SledgeSynonyms: maul (n), sled (n), sleigh (n), sledgehammer (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Adverb: with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer. |
Exertion | Adverb: laboriously; Adjective: lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin; (perseverance) a. |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Vehicle | Bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sledge |
| English words defined with "sledge": Dan ♦ Flogging hammer, Fore hammer ♦ old sledge ♦ Pulkha ♦ sledge dog, Sledged, Sledging, Slipes ♦ Tarantass ♦ Uphand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sledge": BLACKSMITH HELPER, Bog Sledge ♦ CAR TRIMMER, carpenter helper ♦ double sledge ♦ FITTER I, FLANGING-ROLL OPERATOR, FLYING-SHEAR OPERATOR, FORMER HELPER, HAND, FORMER, HAND ♦ GAOLER'S COACH ♦ hammerman's paralysis, hand hammer, HORSE TRAINER ♦ jig fitter ♦ LINER REPLACER, log sledge ♦ RIVETER, PNEUMATIC ♦ SHIPWRIGHT HELPER, spalling floor, STEEL-POURER HELPER ♦ TUBE-CLEANING OPERATOR ♦ woodworker helper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sledge": tribulation ♦ Uphand. (references) |
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Lyrics | Sledge sledge sledgehammer (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Man Called Sledge (1970) Versus Sledge Hammers (1915) Sledge Hammer! (1986) | |
Song Titles | When A Man Loves A Woman (performing artist: Percey Sledge) We Are Family (performing artist: Sister Sledge) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Launch with Shoran antenna off Sledge Island Launch off EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ice studies west of Sledge Island just west of Norton Sound. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s. Note the engines' horizontal cylinders, with the shafts of her twin screws beyond them. This machinery had been wrecked with sledge hammers when the ship was scuttled in December 1864. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Man unloading stones from sledge. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Northernmost man and his wife, Mec-oo-sha and Ah-ma, standing next to sledge, two Inuits who served as helpers to Frederick Cook during his expedition to the North Pole. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Goldes woman pulling firewood sledge. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Khabarovsk - sledge with troika outside posthouse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Irkutsk (?) - boy on small sledge pulled by 3 bear cubs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Krasnoyarsk - distant view of church with pony-drawn sledge in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | About noon I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle, drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos. |
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| "Sledge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.87% of the time. "Sledge" is used about 123 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) | 91.87% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.88% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sledge" 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 |
| Sledge | Last name | 5,000 | 2,699 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Sledge, MS (town, FIPS 68400) |
Expressions using "sledge": dog sledge ♦ double sledge ♦ lapp sledge ♦ log sledge ♦ old sledge ♦ sledge dog ♦ sledge hammer ♦ threshing sledge ♦ with a sledge hammer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sledge": sledge-a, sledge-block, sledge-car, sledge-hammer, sledge-hammered, sledge-hammers. | |
Ending with "sledge": About-sledge. | |
| 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 "sledge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | slee (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | slitë (carriole, coaster, jumper, sled, sleigh), sajë (carriole, carryall, jumper, sled, sleigh, toboggan), vare (sledgehammer, stamp, tilt-hammer), rrëshqitëse (helter-skelter, runner, sleigh, slide block, toboggan), çekan farkëtari (sledgehammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزلقة (bobsled, drag, sled, sleigh, surfboard, toboggan), مزلجة (roller skates, sled, slide, surfboard, water ski), مطرقة ثقيلة (sledge hammer, triphammer), تمزلج (sled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | lera (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тежък ковашки чук (helve hammer, sledgehammer), тежка шейна (drag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 雪' (sled, sleigh), 爬犁, 冰橇 (sled, sleigh), 大錘 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sánì (carriage, sled), sáòkovat (toboggan), dopravovat na saních. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slaede (carriage, luge, sled, slide), slæde (beam head, saddle, sleigh, slide, trawlhead), mukkert (mall, mallet, maul, mawl, sledge hammer), kane (sleigh), kaelk (luge, sled), forhammer (slap hammer, sledge hammer, sledgehammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slede (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sledo (sleigh), glitveturilo (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sleta (sleigh), sleða (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پتک زدن , پتک (Hammer, Mallet), چکش اهنگری , غلتک (Roll, Roller, Trundle), سورتمه راندن (Sled, Sleigh), سورتمه (Sled, Slide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kelkka (toboggan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traîneau (sled, sleigh), luge (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | belslide (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlitten (car, carriage, cradle, motor, sled, sleigh, slide, toboggan), rodelschlitten (coaster, toboggan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλκηθρο (bobsleigh, sled, sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקבת (hammer, mallet), מזחלת (sled, sleigh), מ'לש" (chute, sled, slide, toboggan), מ'רר" (sled, sleigh), קור ס (drop hammer, mallet, maul, sledge hammer, triphammer), פטיש '"ול, ע'לת חורף (sled), 'רר" (carriage, slide rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szánkó (Bob, jumper, sled, sleigh, train). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | eretan (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | slitta (chassis, sled, sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リ ド鋼 (lute, rearcar, remake, remote, remote car, remote control, remote directory, remote sensing, remote switch, rheumatism, rimland, rimmed steel), 槌 (gavel, hammer, mallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リュージュ , つち (earth, gavel, hammer, mallet, soil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 썰매 (SLED). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey er sleayd, sleaydey (drag, draggle, draw along, dredge, dredging, sleigh, trail), sleayd (drag, dredge, toboggan, trail, trailer), goll er sleayd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | slede (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | tira (sleigh), amach (sleigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edgeslay trenó (carriage-dog, sled, sleigh). (various references) sanie (luge, sleigh, toboggan). (various references) сани (sled, sledges, sleds, sleigh, sleighs). (various references) c rn (a horning. The Gaelic seems a confusion between còrn, a pile, a sledge, heap of stones, pile). (various references) sanke (sled, sleigh), voziti se sankama. (various references) trineo (sled, sleigh, toboggan), endrino (blackthorn, sleigh, sloe). (various references) slägga (about-sledge, hammer, maul, sledgehammer), släde (sleigh, slide), kälke (bob sleigh, bob-sleigh, coaster, sled, sleigh, toboggan). (various references) เลื่อนหิมะขนา"ใหญ่. (various references) kızakla taşımak, kızakla gitmek, kızak (carrier, chock, coaster, cradle, drag, gantry, gauntry, Shipway, skid, sled, slide, slipway, stock, toboggan), kızağa binmek, dövme çekici, balyoz (sledgehammer). (various references) їхати на санях, санки (sled), сани (sleigh), кувалда (about-sledge, beetle, sledge hammer), возити на санях. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sledge": sledged, sledgehammer, sledgehammered, sledgehammering, sledgehammers, sledges. (additional references) | |
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"Sledge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldega, Elledge, sedgy, Selde, Selsden, slede, sledger, slege, stedge, swedge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sledge" (pronounced sle"j) |
| 3 | -l e" j | allege, fledge, ledge, pledge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gledes, gleeds, ledges. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l-s" | |
-1 letter: deles, edges, gelds, glede, gleds, gleed, glees, ledge, leges, sedge. | |
-2 letters: dees, dele, dels, edge, eels, elds, else, geds, geed, gees, geld, gels, gled, glee, lees, legs, seed, seel, sled. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, eds, eel, eld, els, ged, gee, gel, led, lee, leg, see, seg, sel. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l-s" | |
+1 letter: deluges, fledges, gelders, ledgers, legends, pledges, redlegs, sledged, sledges. | |
+2 letters: deglazes, edgeless, elegised, goldeyes, ledgiest, pledgees, pledgers, pledgets, seedling, selvaged, selvedge, sleighed, wergelds. | |
+3 letters: becudgels, begirdles, bleedings, cudgelers, danegelds, delegates, dieseling, doggerels, engirdles, englished, ensilaged, eulogised, fledgiest, glistened, glistered, goldenest, gradeless, gulfweeds, impledges, legalised, megadeals, needlings, pledgeors, reedlings, reglossed, repledges, seedlings, selvedged, selvedges, squilgeed, weregilds. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 64 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . -.. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e d g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0064 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537871707371 |
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