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Definition of Glidder
1. a. Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
Definition of Glidder
1. glid [adj] - See also: glid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glidder
Literary usage of Glidder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[Cf. AS. glid (once), slippery, 'glidder (not authenticated), slippery, ...
[< glidder + -y1.] Slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Two men led my mother down a steep and ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"glidder. Slippery.—Hal. B. Jonson speaks of a galley-pot being well glid- dered,
ie glazed. ... Da. dial, glidder, slippery ..."
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