sledge
3
6.8
- noun
- /slɛdʒ/
:
mazo
- The worker used a heavy sledge to drive the stake into the ground.
- hammers and sledges
- a heavy sledge
- a sledge in hand
Examples
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With each swing of the sledge, the rock began to crack and split.
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Instead, they brought out the sledge and tried to whack it back into line.
Blog text (13) -
Look at him swing that sledge.
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The sledge was a weight pressing against the small of his back.
Fiction book (1991) -
After a long while, Simon came back with a ten-pound sledge choked up in his hand.
Fiction book (2001) -
One has a carpenter's hammer, another a sledge, another a crowbar.
Fiction book (1992) -
With suddenly renewed vigor, he sent the sledge pounding home on the metal and again sent lines of sparks flying throughout the small, private chamber.
Fiction book (1992) -
They hauled huge blocks of stone by means of sledge, roller, lever, rope, and ramp.
Academic text (1992) -
With astounding ease, as though he were swinging a tool made for slender nails, Wulfgar brought a twenty-pound sledge down repeatedly on a metal shaft.
Fiction book (1992) -
To install the new fence post, he grabbed the sledge from the tool shed.
Synonyms
188
1.0
A tool with a heavy head for hitting nails or wood
35
3.9
A large heavy tool with a long handle used to break stone or drive stakes
21
7.5
A large heavy hammer with a long handle used to split logs or drive wedges
Compounds
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sledge originally comes from an old English word slegge that meant 'to strike' or 'hit'. So a sledge is a heavy hammer made for driving stakes or wedges.