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Sled   /slɛd/   Listen
noun
Sled  n.  
1.
A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; in England called sledge.
2.
A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.


verb
Sled  v. t.  (past & past part. sledded; pres. part. sledding)  To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.





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"Sled" Quotes from Famous Books



... slipping, and leaping after the tail of the sled had sent his blood tingling to the last of his protesting members. Cold withdrew. He saw now that the pines were beautiful and solemn and still; and that in the temple of their columns dwelt winter enthroned. Across the carpet of the snow wandered the trails of her ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White
... still to be settled," broke in Betty, determined to change the conversation, "is how are we to go to camp. Shall we skate or sled or——" ...
— The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp - Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats • Laura Lee Hope
... Russian peasant had rigged up his strange-looking but ingeniously constructed sahnia, or sledge. Where on the river he was planting in the ice long thick-set rows of pines or branches in double rows twice a sled length apart. These frozen-in lines of green were to guide the traveller in the long winter of short days and dark nights safely past the occasional open holes and at such times as he made his trip over the road in the blinding blizzards of snow. Out there where the peasant was ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... much brushwood at hand it was an easy matter to construct a rude sled-like drag for poor Tom. To make it more comfortable they heaped on it some tundra moss which they found growing on one of the wind-swept ...
— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield
... method depends a good deal upon the quantity to be handled; if only a few hundred barrels, they can be put in open barrels and stored on the barn floor. Place empty barrels on a log-boat or old sled; take out the upper head and place it in the bottom of the barrel; on picking the apples put them, without sorting, directly into these barrels, and when a load is filled, draw to the barn and place in tiers on end along one side of the floor; ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various


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