Sleighs

Word SLEIGHS
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Sleighs"

What do we mean by sleighs?

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)

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The word "sleighs" in example sentences

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(The young characters ride in sleighs between dachas over the legendary Russian snow while their parents stay home worrying about money, as if prosperity, with all its glamour, were a show, presented generation after generation, for the benefit of the children.) ❋ Unknown (2006)

For a short sojourn, and with no necessity for fifty miles 'journeys in sleighs and such-like fatiguing expeditions, we are simply unspeakably fortunate in the climate. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1896)

In one of the sleighs was a lady, who at the moment of passing him lost a bracelet from her arm, which fell on the snow. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Sometimes each rider has a horse, and they race horses just as though they were riding in sleighs. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The place where the other teams were could be recognized by the heaps of snow, though not all the sleighs were entirely covered with snow; in front of some of the sleighs were the horses up to their bellies, in the posture of their last effort to run. ❋ Henryk Sienkiewicz (1881)

Over these roads sleighs, that is carts on runners, were able to travel faster than those on wheels. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Our trunks had gone on the lumber sleighs, that is, mine and Dirck's had thus been sent, while our two companions found room for theirs in the conveyance in which we went ourselves. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

Uley's is also open for dinner, though bookings must be made in advance due to Uley's high demand and elevated location diners are transported to the cozy cabin via open-air sleighs. ❋ Millie Kerr (2011)

The Jets and Giants need to start pulling their sleighs. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

Instead, state-approved calendars featured Young Pioneers frolicking in the snow—though parents resisted buying galactic-themed calendars with rocket sleighs promoting the Soviet space race. ❋ Mary M. Lane (2011)

Also popular: snow sleighs or "pushers" that can move large amounts of light, fluffy snow without lifting and tossing. ❋ Gwendolyn Bounds (2011)

In her hometown, she had a job driving horse-drawn sleighs and wagons in her hometown and now has learned the animals can be used for more than tourism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everything went on as normal in spite of the snow, all the locals used skis to get around, even small babies wore very small skis and transport was horse drawn sleighs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The government's decision to close national refuges and parks has cost him about $ 60,000, forced him to lay off 12 employees and park his seven sleighs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

‘Increasingly, his pronouncements seem designed to grab a headline rather than challenge the status quo — it’s bash-a-burglar, prison ships and PC-gone-mad, instead of hug-a-hoody, husky sleighs and general wellbeing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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