sled
pronunciation
How to pronounce sled in British English:
UK [sled]
How to pronounce sled in American English:
US [sled]
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- Noun:
- a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
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- Verb:
- ride (on) a sled
Word Origin
- sled (n.)
- early 14c., "a dragged vehicle used for transport of heavy goods," from Middle Dutch sledde "sled," from Proto-Germanic *slid- (cognates: Old Saxon slido, Old Norse sleði, Danish slæde, Swedish släde, Old High German slito, German Schlitten "sledge"), from the same root as Old English slidan (see slide (v.)). Not found in Old English. In reference to a sleigh used for travel or recreation, it is attested from 1580s, now mainly American English.
- sled (v.)
- "transport on a sled," 1718; "ride on a sled," 1780, from sled (n.). Related: Sledded; sledding.
Example
- 1. Four-time iditarod champion martin buser rests on his sled .
- 2. If you love to skate , love to wear the sled .
- 3. Baalsrud could no longer walk , so gronvold and friends built a sled .
- 4. You can 't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow .
- 5. Throughout the town , sled dogs are staked to the frozen ground ; there are at least three times as many dogs as people .