Sled

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  • noun. A vehicle having runners and used for carrying people or loads over ice and snow; a sledge.
  • noun. A light vehicle, often with runners, used especially by children for coasting over snow or ice.
  • noun. A snowmobile.
  • noun. A movable, slotted surface that slides over the blade of a table saw, used to ensure accurate cuts.
  • intransitive verb. To carry on or convey by a sled.
  • intransitive verb. To ride or use a sled.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small tool, resembling a sled in form and having sharp blades for runners, used for cutting gold-leaf into rectangular sheets.
  • noun. The device for making sliding contact between the underground conductors of an electric road and those of a moving railway-car upon the road.
  • noun. Same as sledge, sledge-hammer.
  • To convey or transport on a sled: as, to sled wood or timber.
  • To ride or travel in a sled: sometimes with an impersonal it.
  • To be carried or transported on a sled.
  • noun. A drag or dray without wheels, but mounted on runners, for the conveyance of loads over frozen snow or ice, or over mud or the bare ground, as in transporting logs and heavy stones. Also sledge.
  • noun. A pair of runners connected by a framework, used (sometimes with another pair) to carry loads or support the body of a vehicle, or, when of lighter build and supporting a light platform or seat, in the sport of coasting and for drawing light loads by hand.
  • noun. A vehicle moving on runners, drawn by horses, dogs, or reindeer; a sleigh.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To convey or transport on a sled.
  • noun. A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
  • noun. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
  • noun. A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
  • verb. To ride a sled.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
  • verb. ride (on) a sled
  • Word Usage
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    Form
    sledded  sledding  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ed  Fed  Fred  Freda  Ged  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    toboggan  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Skimobile  Sno-Cat  barge  blade  boat  
    variant
    sledding  sledge  
    verb-form
    sledded  sledding  sleds