sledge

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /slɛd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ɛdʒ === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Noun ==== sledge (plural sledges) (archaic or by ellipsis) A sledgehammer. ===== Synonyms ===== (long handled maul or hammer): forehammer, sledgehammer ===== Derived terms ===== about sledge ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged) To hit with a sledgehammer. === Etymology 2 === Dialectal Dutch sleedse, from Middle Dutch sleedse, from the root of sled. ==== Noun ==== sledge (plural sledges) A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. (UK) any type of sled or sleigh. 1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae: Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers And Writings...Part I [the full title stretches for 70 words] reporting a passage in "Nicholas Sanders's Seditious Pamphlet" De Schismate Anglicano, &c (1585) Ty'd upon the Sledge, a Papist and a Protestant in front, being two very disparate and antipathetick Companions, was a very ridiculous Science of Cruelty, even worst than Death it self (says he). A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged) To drag or draw a sledge. To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge. 2006, Godfrey (EDT) Baldacchino, Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands Some of these may be closely associated with the day-to-day lifestyle of such communities — marine activities (fishing, wildlife viewing), mountain activities (abseiling, climbing, hunting) or winter sports (dog sledging). ==== See also ==== === Etymology 3 === From Sledge (“a surname”), influenced by sledgehammer. First attested in the 1960s in Australian English. According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy” or “Sledge”, from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obscenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging. ==== Verb ==== sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged) (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike). ==== Noun ==== sledge (plural sledges) (chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging. ===== Translations ===== === References === === Anagrams === edgels, gledes, gleeds, ledges