sledges

These were to be used by the exploring companies whom he proposed to send out in sledges, while the ice was still unbroken, in hopes of thus discovering the way to the Polynia, or polar basin, in which he thought Franklin might be shut up.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

The damage to the sledges was the reason given for the delay.

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

Hard 0. 60-0.85 Wrought steel wheels for steam and electric railway service; locomotive tires; rails; tools, such as sledges, hammers, pick points, crowbars, etc.

The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916

Off he goes: The policeman 'sledges' down the steep bank and is cheered on by his colleagues

Home | Mail Online 2010

And so with crowbars they pried off the old grey lumber and began to have at the wall with picks and sledges.

Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011

Sixteen men left Cape Evans with dogs, ponies and sledges for the 900-mile journey.

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

We wore reindeer clothes; reindeer pulled our sledges.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

The two motor sledges broke down almost immediately.

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

There are seven toboggan runs – all several miles long – and it was as much as we could do to force the kids off the sledges and back on to their skis.

Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol Martin Love 2010

The civilian labourers, with their horsedrawn sledges, were beginning to arrive, each vehicle, as it appeared through the mist, resembling some ghostly fantastic craft cleaving a tedious path through a waveless ocean.

Work Camp 10760 L 2010