sleigh

• enPR: slā, IPA^(key): /sleɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: slay

From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.

sleigh (plural sleighs)

1. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)

   Santa travels in a sleigh.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.

• sled
• sledge
• toboggan

sleigh (third-person singular simple present sleighs, present participle sleighing, simple past and past participle sleighed)

1. (intransitive) To ride or drive a sleigh.
2. (transitive) To transport (cargo, freight) via sleigh.

   Hypernyms: transport, haul, ship (broad sense)

   Coordinate terms: truck, cart, boat

   • 2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010:

     Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.

• sleigher

sleigh (comparative sleigher, superlative sleighest)

1. (obsolete) Sly.

• Sleigh in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• le sigh, leighs

sleigh

1. dative singular of sleagh

sleigh

1. alternative form of sly