sled

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). Related to slide.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

a dog sled

Noun

sled (plural sleds)

1. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)

   The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.

2. (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)

   "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.

3. (slang) A snowmobile.

Verb

sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)

1. To ride a sled.

Anagrams

• Dels, ELSD, LEDs, dels, seld

Etymology

From Old Czech footprint, Proto-Slavic *slědъ (“rail, sledge runner”), Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleidʰ (“slide”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈslɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: sled
• Homophone: slet

Noun

sled m inan

1. sequence, succession
   • 2012, Radomír Čížek, Velké oživení, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of The Great Reflation by J. Anthony Boeckh, →ISBN, page 15:

     Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.

     It is critical for investors to understand that there is a linked sequence of events that is leading to a potential disaster.

References

Further reading

• sled in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sled in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• sedl

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): slijȇd

Noun

slȇd m (Cyrillic spelling сле̑д)

1. sequence
2. track