Sentence examples for the sledge from inspiring English sources
noun
A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
This time the sledge moved a little.
The sledge shot forward, knocking me off balance.
The sledge was used in the Kurgan culture of southern Russia.
The book was a diary, and on the first page someone had written, "The Sledge Journey, 1897".
As soon as this was done, she shouldered the sledge hammer and walked away, never to reappear.
My go-to pieces there are the chain saw, the sledge hammer and the big pipe wrench.
He added, "The sledge, now a battering ram and not a burden, smashed through all in its path".
Its predecessor, the sledge, in the form of the travois and the sidecar, is believed to have been the first vehicle used by humans.
The only means of traversing the Arctic had been the sledge, and, whether pulled by men or by dogs, it had failed to take anyone far enough.
The arrival of the wheel and axle ended the use of the sledge except in its snow-and-ice surface form of sled a body mounted on runners.
And we may disagree with the detail, but this new package is not just baggage thrown off the back of the sledge to appease the pack.
