sledge
nounA vehicle mounted on runners drawn by work animals, such as horses or dogs, and used for transporting loads across ice, snow, and rough ground.
transitive & intransitive verbTo convey or travel on a sledge.
nounA large heavy hammer, used chiefly by blacksmiths. Also called
Same as
A vehicle without wheels, commonly on runners and of various forms, much used in northern countries where ice and snow prevail; a sleigh: as, a reindeer sledge; an Eskimo sledge. In the United States sledge is not used in this sense. See
Hence, anything serving the purpose of a vehicle which may be dragged without wheels along the ground, as the hurdle on which persons were formerly drawn to execution.
nounSame as
In heraldry, a bearing representing a heavy vehicle with runners like a sledge.
To convey or transports, in a sledge; travel in a sledge.
nounThe thick wooden outer case of a mummy.