sleigh

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vehicle on runners for traveling over snow or ice, usually pulled by an animal

   The hunters returned across the frozen pond in a horse-drawn sleigh.

2. 2
   verb

   to ride or travel in a sleigh

   The family sleighed into town after the road disappeared beneath the snow.

Borrowed from Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, a Germanic word related to sled and slide. The English spelling preserves the Dutch-looking -eigh even though the word is pronounced like slay.

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