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SLEIGH, SLED

SLEIGH, SLED or SLEDGE (See also:

DAN

Dan. slaede, Dutch slede, akin to " slide "), a vehicle on runners instead of wheels, for travelling over See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow or See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice. Various forms are used according as the See also:

OBJECT

object is utility or See also:

SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport. The sleighs used in See also:

COASTING

COASTING are referred to in the See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article under that heading; but for See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary means of See also:

CONVEYANCE

conveyance See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-See also:

DRAWN

drawn sleighs are employed as carriages in countries such as See also:

Russia, Scandinavia, and See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America, where the roads are snow-See also:

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound in the See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season; and in the See also:

ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

Arctic regions See also:

DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs are harnesses]. to them.

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