sledging
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting the batter.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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;"
- "Mind you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself."