sledged; sledging
: to transport on a sledge
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
All horses, carts, and sledges available had already been taken, so the desperate set out on foot, not knowing that farther ahead in Krasnoyarsk cases had reached more than 30,000.
—Antony Beevor, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2022
As soon as the Brulé glimpsed Harney’s troops the women began to strike tepees, loading lodge poles, skins and other belongings onto travois, sledges drawn by horses and dogs.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
In 1986, activists sank two roughly 430-ton Icelandic whaling ships and used sledge hammers and acid to destroy processing equipment in the country’s only whale oil plant.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2024
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Josh Duhamel established himself as the inexplicable franchise stalwart, the roguish yet vanilla Captain Lennox, a military man whose jaw could shatter a sledge hammer.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
All horses, carts, and sledges available had already been taken, so the desperate set out on foot, not knowing that farther ahead in Krasnoyarsk cases had reached more than 30,000.
—Antony Beevor, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2022
As soon as the Brulé glimpsed Harney’s troops the women began to strike tepees, loading lodge poles, skins and other belongings onto travois, sledges drawn by horses and dogs.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
In 1986, activists sank two roughly 430-ton Icelandic whaling ships and used sledge hammers and acid to destroy processing equipment in the country’s only whale oil plant.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Sledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sledge. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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sledge
1 of 3 nounsledge
2 of 3 noun
: a strong heavy sled
sledge
3 of 3 verb
sledged; sledging
: to travel with or transport on a sledge
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