Synonyms of the word sledge


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sledge

  • n. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
  • v. to hit with a sledgehammer.
  • n. A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
  • n. (Britain) any type of sled or sleigh.
  • n. A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
  • v. To drag or draw a sledge.
  • v. To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
  • v. (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered…

hammer

  • n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  • n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • n. (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip…
  • n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

journey

  • n. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
  • n. (obsolete) A day.
  • n. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • n. (obsolete) A day's work.
  • v. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

maul

  • n. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into it, or in combat.
  • n. (rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more…
  • v. To handle someone or something in a rough way.
  • v. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
  • v. (figuratively) To criticise harshly.

sled

  • n. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled"…
  • n. (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is…
  • v. To ride a sled.

sledgehammer

  • n. A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle…
  • v. To strike with a sledgehammer.

sleigh

  • n. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting…
  • v. To ride or drive a sleigh.
  • adj. (obsolete) Sly.

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

vehicle

  • n. A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
  • n. A medium for expression of talent or views.
  • n. A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).
  • n. (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
  • n. An entity to achieve an end.
  • n. (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
  • n. (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

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