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SLED SLEIGH

SLEIGH or SLEDGE (

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DAN

Dan. slaede, Dutch slede, akin to " slide "), a vehicle on runners instead of wheels, for travelling over

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SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow or

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ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice . Various forms are used according as the

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OBJECT

object is utility or

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SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport . The sleighs used in

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COASTING

COASTING are referred to in the

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ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article under that heading; but for

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ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary means of

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CONVEYANCE

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HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

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DRAWN

drawn sleighs are employed as carriages in countries such as

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Russia, Scandinavia, and

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AMERICA

America, where the roads are snow-

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BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound in the

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COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

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SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season; and in the

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ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

Arctic regions

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DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs are harnesses]. to them .

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