Dictionary of Americanisms: a Glossary of Words And Phrases, Usually ...
Dictionary of Americanisms: a Glossary of Words And Phrases, Usually ...
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TO SLEEP. Sometimes used as an active verb; as, 'This steamboat can sleep three hundred passengers,' i. e. can fur- nish sleeping accommodations for them. We have heard of a landlady who said ' she could eat fifty people in her house, but could not sleep half the number. 9 V Digitized by Google AMERICANISMS. 307 SLEIOH. A vehicle moved on runners, and greatly used in America for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice. — Webster. In England it is called a sledge. During the winter of 1844,... after a fall of snow in London, an English newspaper observed that " the Queen was making prepara- tions for sledge-driving," which in America few would under- stand to mean,that Her Majesty was about taking & sleigh-ride.
SLEIGHING. The state of the snow which admits of running ' sleighs. — Webster. As, 'good sleighing/ 'bad sleighing;' and in the winter when there is no snow, we say there is ' no sleighing.' „ 2. The act of riding in a sleigh. — Webster.
SLEIGH-BELL. A small hollow ball, made of bell-metal, having a hole in it that passes half round its circumference, and containing a small solid ball, of a size not to escape.
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TO SLEEP. Sometimes used as an active verb; as, 'This steamboat can sleep three hundred passengers,' i. e. can fur- nish sleeping accommodations for them. We have heard of a landlady who said ' she could eat fifty people in her house, but could not sleep half the number. 9 V Digitized by Google AMERICANISMS. 307 SLEIOH. A vehicle moved on runners, and greatly used in America for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice. — Webster. In England it is called a sledge. During the winter of 1844,... after a fall of snow in London, an English newspaper observed that " the Queen was making prepara- tions for sledge-driving," which in America few would under- stand to mean,that Her Majesty was about taking & sleigh-ride.
SLEIGHING. The state of the snow which admits of running ' sleighs. — Webster. As, 'good sleighing/ 'bad sleighing;' and in the winter when there is no snow, we say there is ' no sleighing.' „ 2. The act of riding in a sleigh. — Webster.
SLEIGH-BELL. A small hollow ball, made of bell-metal, having a hole in it that passes half round its circumference, and containing a small solid ball, of a size not to escape.
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