sleigh

• enPR: slā, IPA^(key): /sleɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: slay

From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.

sleigh (plural sleighs)

1. 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)

   Santa travels in a sleigh.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.

• Nantucket sleigh ride
• sleigh bed
• sleigh bell
• sleigh shovel

• sled
• sledge
• toboggan

sleigh (third-person singular simple present sleighs, present participle sleighing, simple past and past participle sleighed)

1. To ride or drive a sleigh.

• sleigher

sleigh (comparative sleigher, superlative sleighest)

1. (obsolete) Sly.

•   Sleigh in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• le sigh, leighs

sleigh

1. dative singular of sleagh

sleigh

1. Alternative form of sly