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A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

] Eskimo dog (Zoöl.), one of breed of large and powerful dogs used by the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.

sel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

ore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. -- Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. -- Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion…

t or drawn. High, low, jack, and the game, a game at cards; -- also called all fours, old sledge, and seven up. -- In high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.…

tleman of the old school; -- used also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians. -- Old sledge, an old and well-known game of cards, called also all fours, and high, low, Jack, and the game. -- Old squaw (Zoöl.), a duck (Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is varied w…

A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. [U.S.] Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate. Judd. They did not take out the pungs to-day. E. E. Hale.

The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge. [U. S.]

A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.

nd used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge. Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.

Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge.

ging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. Swage block, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.