A sledge is normally taken to mean ‘a carriage mounted upon runners instead of wheels, and generally used for travelling over snow or ice’. Sledge shares its etymology and meaning with sled, a form which the OED describes as being ‘chiefly dialect and US’. Sled does, however, have some meanings that sledge does not have. They include ... More @Wikipedia
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