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# sleigh

«sleigh» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large sledge pulled by horses, reindeer or dogs, for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sleigh, sleighs); verb (sleigh, sleighs, sleighed, sleighing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large sledge pulled by horses, reindeer or dogs, for carrying people or goods over snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m1)

2) Father Christmas's or Santa Claus's sleigh, pulled by reindeer in Christmas stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m2)

3) (verb) To ride in a sleigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m3)

4) (slang) «Sleigh» is a joking Christmas spelling of slang «slay», meaning to do something brilliantly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In Christmas stories, songs («Jingle Bells», «Sleigh Ride») and cards Santa rides a sleigh with reindeer; in geography, sleighs are used in snowy places like Lapland, Canada and Alaska. In history, sleighs carried people across snow before cars.

### examples

- Santa's sleigh is pulled by reindeer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x1)
- We rode in a horse-drawn sleigh in Lapland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x2)
- "Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh…" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x3)
- The sleigh bells jingled in the cold air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x4)
- They loaded wood onto the sleigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x5)
- (slang, Christmas joke) "Your jumper looks great — you sleigh!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x6)
- Then they went to the Lapland woman, who gave them new clothes and mended their sleigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x7)

### note

Countable. Sounds exactly like «slay» (to kill; in slang, to do brilliantly) — homophones. «eigh» says «ay» as in «eight». A smaller one for children is a «sledge» (UK) or «sled» (USA).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sleigh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.