Sledging vs Fledging - What's the difference?
sledging | fledging |
The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
* 2012 , Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica , page 19
The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
* 1905', "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", ''The Locomotive'', new series ' 25 : 162
(cricket) The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting him
As verbs the difference between sledging and fledging
is that sledging is while fledging is .As a noun sledging
is the act of using a sledge to travel over snow.sledging
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- In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory ; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.
- It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging , or by some other equivalent means;