sleigh
pronunciation
How to pronounce sleigh in British English:
UK [sleɪ]
How to pronounce sleigh in American English:
US [sleɪ]
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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
- sleigh
- sleigh: see sledge
- sleigh (n.)
- "vehicle mounted on runners for use on ice and snow," 1703, American and Canadian English, from Dutch slee, shortened from slede (see sled (n.)). As a verb from 1728. Related: Sleighing. Sleigh-ride is first recorded 1770; sleigh-bells is from c. 1780; they originally were used to give warning of the approach of a sleigh.
Example
- 1. Santa 's annual all-nighter driving a toy-laden sleigh is probably not going to put risk-averse minds at ease .
- 2. The reindeer owners and breeders association says reindeer are easy to train to pull a cart or sleigh .
- 3. For example , that a fat man in a red suit flies through the air on a sleigh pulled by reindeer .
- 4. Washington ( reuters ) - ever wondered how santa claus can travel around the world in just one night on his reindeer-pulled sleigh and deliver toys to all the children ?
- 5. He 's manufacturing executive , sleigh driver , letter reader , list double-checker , reindeer tender , distributor and more .