SLEIGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleigh mean? 

• SLEIGH (noun)
  The noun SLEIGH has 1 sense:

1. a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow

  Familiarity information: SLEIGH used as a noun is very rare.

• SLEIGH (verb)
  The verb SLEIGH has 1 sense:

1. ride (on) a sled

  Familiarity information: SLEIGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEIGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sled; sledge; sleigh

Hypernyms ("sleigh" is a kind of...):

vehicle (a conveyance that transports people or objects)

Meronyms (parts of "sleigh"):

runner (device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sleigh"):

bob; bobsled; bobsleigh (a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism)

bobsled; bobsleigh (formerly two short sleds coupled together)

dog sled; dog sleigh; dogsled (a sled pulled by dogs)

luge (a racing sled for one or two people)

pung (a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners)

toboggan (a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front)

Derivation:

sleigh (ride (on) a sled)

• SLEIGH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sleigh    ... he / she / it sleighs   
Past simple: sleighed   
Past participle: sleighed   
-ing form: sleighing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ride (on) a sled

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

sled; sleigh

Hypernyms (to "sleigh" is one way to...):

ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sleigh"):

dogsled; mush (travel with a dogsled)

bob; bobsled (ride a bobsled)

luge; toboggan (move along on a luge or toboggan)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

sleigh (a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow)

 Context examples 

A sleigh ride had been planned, but the girls would not leave their father, so the guests departed early, and as twilight gathered, the happy family sat together round the fire.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the Kings' she daily saw all she wanted, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That's my middle west—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)