sled

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.

   The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.

2. 2
   noun

   A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.

   "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.

3. 3
   noun

   A snowmobile.

   We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.

4. 4
   noun

   A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.

   Near-synonyms: land yacht, boat.

From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.

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