sled
Meanings
Plural: sleds
Noun
- a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
- A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
- A snowmobile.
- A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.
Verb
- ride (on) a sled
- To ride a sled.
- To convey on a sled.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Scrabble Score: 5
sled is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsled is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sled is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
sled is a valid Words With Friends word