Other forms: sledges
A sledge is a vehicle on runners for travelling over snow. Pull a sledge, a dog sledge, ride the sledge downhill.
It is the British word; America says sled, and a sleigh is the larger horse-drawn kind. The runners work because pressure and friction melt a thin film of water beneath them. In cricket, to sledge is to insult a batter to break their concentration.
1nounsledgeA vehicle on runners for travelling over snow.
“The children pulled their sledge to the top of the snowy hill.”
sledge is a vehicle.
Middle English slegge, from a Dutch or Low German word. The sledgehammer is a different word, from Old English slecg.
Proto-Germanic
*slagjǭ
Old English
sleċġ — sledgehammer; mallet
Middle English
slegge
English, today
sledge
From Middle English slegge, from Old English sleċġ (“sledgehammer; mallet”), from Proto-Germanic slagjǭ. Cognate with Dutch slegge (“sledge”), Swedish slägga (“sledge”), Norwegian Bokmål slegge (“sledge”), Norwegian Nynorsk sleggje (“sledge”), Icelandic sleggja (“sledge”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA