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sledge
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English slegge, from Old English sle?? (“sledgehammer; mallet”), from Proto-Germanic *slagj?. Cognate with Dutch slegge (“sledge”), Swedish slägga (“sledge”), Norwegian Bokmål slegge (“sledge”), Norwegian Nynorsk sleggje (“sledge”), Icelandic sleggja (“sledge”), German Schlägel.
Noun
sledge (plural sledges)
- A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
- 1737, J. Ray, "A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used, With their Significations and Original in two Alphabetical Catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern Counties. With an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are found in England."
- [based on information from Major Hill, Master of the Silver Mills, in 1662, descibing silver mining in Cardiganshire] They dig the Oar thus; One holds a little Picque, or Punch of Iron, having a long Handle of Wood which they call a Gad; Another with a great Iron Hammer, or Sledge, drives it into the Vein.
- 1737, J. Ray, "A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used, With their Significations and Original in two Alphabetical Catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern Counties. With an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are found in England."
Synonyms
- (long handled maul or hammer): forehammer, sledgehammer
Translations
Verb
sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)
- to hit with a sledgehammer.
- 1842, John O'Donovan, The Banquet of Dun Na N-Gedh and The Battle of Magh Rath: An Ancient and Historical Tale
- The rapid and violent exertion of smiths, mightily sledging the glowing iron masses of their furnaces.
- 2005, Langdon W Moore, Langdon W. Moore: His Own Story of His Eventful Life
- When I inquired the reason of this wire being used in the construction of the safe, I was told it was to prevent the doors being broken by either sledging or wedging.
- 1842, John O'Donovan, The Banquet of Dun Na N-Gedh and The Battle of Magh Rath: An Ancient and Historical Tale
Etymology 2
Dialectal Dutch sleedse, from Middle Dutch sleedse, from the root of sled.
Noun
sledge (plural sledges)
- A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
- (Britain) any type of sled or sleigh.
- 1708, F. C. [possibly F. Conyers], Compleat Collier: Or, The Whole Art of Sinking, Getting, and Working, Coal-mines about Sunderland and New-Castle
- Aged wore out Coal-Horses, which after some time Wrought you will have, may serve turn for Sledge-Horses.
- 1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae: Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers And Writings...Part I [the full title stretches for 70 words] reporting a passage in "Nicholas Sanders's Seditious Pamphlet" De Schismate Anglicano, &c (1585)
- Ty'd upon the Sledge, a Papist and a Protestant in front, being two very disparate and antipathetick Companions, was a very ridiculous Science of Cruelty, even worst than Death it self (says he).
- 2006, Richard Higgins, Peter Brukner, Bryan English (editors), Essential Sports Medicine
- There are also Winter Paralympic Games with Alpine and Nordic events, as well as sledge hockey - a form of ice hockey using a seated sledge.
- 1708, F. C. [possibly F. Conyers], Compleat Collier: Or, The Whole Art of Sinking, Getting, and Working, Coal-mines about Sunderland and New-Castle
- A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
Derived terms
- dog sledge
Translations
Verb
sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)
- To drag or draw a sledge.
- 1860, Sherard Osborn, The career, last voyage and fate of ... Sir John Franklin
- It should be remembered, that these explorations were nearly all made by our seamen and officers on foot, dragging sledges, on which were piled tents, provision, fuel for cooking, and raiment. This sledging was brought to perfection by Captain M'Clintock.
- 1860, Sherard Osborn, The career, last voyage and fate of ... Sir John Franklin
- To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
- 1860, John Timbs, School-days of Eminent Men: I. Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, from the Reign of King Alfred
- When "the great fen or moor" which washed the city walls on the north was frozen over, sliding, sledging, and skating were the sports of crowds.
- 2006, Godfrey (EDT) Baldacchino, Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands
- Some of these may be closely associated with the day-to-day lifestyle of such communities — marine activities (fishing, wildlife viewing), mountain activities (abseiling, climbing, hunting) or winter sports (dog sledging).
- 1860, John Timbs, School-days of Eminent Men: I. Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, from the Reign of King Alfred
See also
- sled
- sleigh
- toboggan
Etymology 3
From Sledge (“a surname”), influenced by sledgehammer. Australian from 1960s.
According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy” or “Sledge”, from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obscenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging.
Verb
sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)
- (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).
- 1998, Larry Elliott, Daniel E Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity
- Batteries of fast bowlers softened batsmen up with short-pitched bowling, while fielders tried to disturb their concentration with a running commentary of insults commonly known as sledging.
- 2004, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Socio-Economic Democracy and the World Government: Collective Capitalism, Depovertization, Human Rights, Template for Sustainable Peace
- Then, all these...government legislators...would be able to totally concentrate on their roles and functions, without being entangled in interparty sledging and squabbles.
- 2013 November 6, Marina Hyde, "Whatever Shane Warne says, the Ashes sledgers need to raise their game", The Guardian
- "Bloody hell even their sledging is now shite!!!" he sledged.
- 1998, Larry Elliott, Daniel E Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity
Noun
sledge (plural sledges)
- (chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- edgels, gledes, gleeds, ledges
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soil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??l/, [s????]
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot”); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand”), from Proto-Germanic *sul? (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud”), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth”), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire”), Danish søle (“mud, muck”). Compare French seuil (“level; threshold”) and sol (“soil, earth; ground”). See also sole, soal, solum.
Alternative forms
- soyl (obsolete)
Noun
soil (countable and uncountable, plural soils)
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- Country or territory.
- The refugees returned to their native soil.
- Kenyan soil
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- Dung; compost; manure.
- night soil
Synonyms
- (senses 1 to 3): dirt (US), earth
Derived terms
Related terms
- solum
Translations
See also
- alluvium
Etymology 2
From Middle English soilen, soulen, suylen (“to sully, make dirty”), partly from Old French soillier, souillier (“to soil, make dirty, wallow in mire”), from Old Frankish *sauljan, *sulljan (“to make dirty, soil”); partly from Old English solian, sylian (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *sulw?n?, *sulwijan?, *saulijan? (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old Frisian sulia (“to soil, mire”), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to soil, besmirch”), Old High German sol?n, bisulen (“to make dirty”), German suhlen (“to soil, make dirty”), Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile”), Swedish söla (“to soil, make dirty”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (bisauljan, “to bemire”). Compare sully.
Verb
soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Synonyms
- (to make dirty): smirch, besmirch, dirty
Derived terms
- soil oneself
- soilage (“act of soiling; condition of being soiled”)
Translations
Noun
soil (plural soils)
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
Synonyms
- (faeces or urine etc.): dirt
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English soyl, from Old French soil, souil (“quagmire, marsh”), from Frankish *s?lja, *saulja (“mire, miry place, wallow”), from Proto-Germanic *saulij? (“mud, puddle, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old English syle, sylu, sylen (“miry place, wallow”), Old High German sol, gisol (“miry place”), German Suhle (“a wallow, mud pit, muddy pool”).
Noun
soil (plural soils)
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
Etymology 4
From Old French saoler, saouler (“to satiate”).
Verb
soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
- to soil a horse
Derived terms
- soilage (“fresh-cut forage”)
References
- soil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- LOIs, Lois, Sol I, oils, silo, soli
Basque
Adjective
soil
- bald
See also
- burusoil
Rohingya
Etymology
Cognate with Assamese ???? (saul), Bengali ??? (cal), Hindi ???? (c?val)
Noun
soil
- rice
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