Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sled
IPA transcription: [sl'ɛd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sled, sledge, sleigh
    Meaning: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sled, sleigh
    Meaning: ride (on) a sled
Usage examples
  • The sled was broken out.
  • The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them.
  • The team of ten dogs was unhitched, and Buck, with his own harness, was put into the sled.
  • The sled swayed and trembled, half-started forward. One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud.
  • "I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fiftypound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."
  • Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again...half an inch...an inch... two inches...
  • In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not carry the food for fourteen dogs.
  • "In a sand-boat, which has runners like a sled and sails like a ship. The wind will blow you swiftly across the desert and the sand cannot touch your flesh to turn it into dust."
  • At the end of half an hour one man stated that his dog could start a sled with five hundred pounds and walk off with it; a second bragged six hundred for his dog; and a third, seven hundred.
  • It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.