Sledge: Definition and part of speech

Sledge

  1. n. A game at cards; — called also old sledge, and all fours.
  2. n. A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
  3. n. A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
  4. n. A sleigh.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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