sledgel (slej)

[ mer. Head of Blacksmiths' Cro peen Sledge. heaviest blow, the handle being grasped by both hands to swing the sledge over the head. The uphand sledge is used for light work, and is rarely raised above the head. In hys bosom [the giant] put thre gret slegges wrought. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3000. His blows fall like huge sledges on an anvil. Fletcher, Bonduc a, iii. 5. Cat's-head sledge. Same as bully - head. - Coal-sledge, a hammer of peculiar shape, weighing from 5 to 8 pounds, used in mines to break coal.- Old sledge. Same as all fours. sledge2 (slej), n. [Another form of sled1, whether (a) by mere confusion with sledgel, or (b) by confusion with sleds, pl. of sled1: see sled1.] 1. Same as sled1, 1 and 2. The banks of the Mæander are sloping, and they cro it on a sort of a boat, like a sledge in shape of a half loz enge, the sides of it not being above a foot high. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 57. 2. A vehicle without wheels, commonly on runners and of various forms, much used in Traveling-sledge of Peter the Great. 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 sleigh1, and cut under pulk. 5689 "Samovar postavit!" ("On with the tea-kettle!") the half-frozen traveler never failed to shout from his sledge as he neared a post-station. A. J. C. Hare , Studies in Ru ia, iv. 3. 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.-4. Same as sled1, 2. Oft on sledges in winter, as swift as the swoop of the eagle, Down the hillside bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Long fellow , Evangeline, i. 1. 5. In her ., a bearing representing a heavy vehicle with runners like a sledge. sledge2 (slej), v . t . and i.; pret. and pp. sledged , ppr. sledging . [ to draw a sledge, as an Eskimo dog. sledge-hammer (slej'ham"èr), n. [ sledge-hammer (slej'ham"ėr), v. t. [ You may see what is meant by sledge - hammering a man. Sir G. C. Lewis, Letters (1834), p. 32. ( Davies .) sledman (sled'man), n.; pl. sledmen (-men). The owner or driver of a sled; a carrier who uses a sled. But no we they, hauing pa ed the greater part of their iourney, mette at last with the Sleddeman (of whom I spake before). Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 247. sleelt, v. t. A Middle English form of slay1. slee2t, a. A Middle English and Scotch form of sly.